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1monster

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1. I read about something about a research facility in Tamp about years ago using thigh

Reply to hue (Original post)

Tue May 22, 2012, 08:50 PM

May 2012

muscle and turning it into heart muscle that beat like heart tissue.

I remember because there was a woman on another message board (and this was before 2001 because it was before DU) who was in heart failure and I passed the information on to her in hopes that she could get into testing.

I never heard more about it...

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Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle [View all] hue May 2012 OP

I read about something about a research facility in Tamp about years ago using thigh 1monster May 2012 #1

Part of me gets very excited reading about research like this SirRevolutionary May 2012 #2

Who knows, Politicalboi May 2012 #3

That's an insult to lab rats!!! hue May 2012 #5

I'm with you about the excitement except for elderly people with Alzheimer's, i.e. wordpix May 2012 #6

The most important aspect of this is getting rid of corrupt transplant networks hue May 2012 #4

Notice how this is not happening in the United States. Zoeisright May 2012 #7

That'll help rich people. Poor people will still be sent to war, sold tainted, unregulated food, valerief May 2012 #8

So wearing your heart on your sleeve could be more than just a metaphor? yellowcanine May 2012 #9

that makes me throb all over....nt Evasporque May 2012 #10

I'm waiting donquijoterocket May 2012 #11