Ghost heart- rebuilding a dead heart and watching it start to beat.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Ghost Heart

Reanimating lifeless organs brings new hope for the millions on transplant waiting lists

By Elizabeth Svoboda Posted 09.23.2008 at 10:52 am

In late 2005, cardiac researcher Doris Taylor revived the dead. She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper—a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited.

What she witnessed four days later, once the cells had a chance to make themselves at home, was astonishing. "We could see these little areas that were beginning to beat," says Taylor, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Cardiovascular Repair. "By eight days, we could see the whole heart beating. The first time that happened, it was like ‘yes!' "

More at: http://www.popsci.com/elizabeth-svoboda/article/2008-09/ghost-heart

[UndertheOcean]

1. Cool !

[nebenaube]

2. if this is real then this is really really cool! n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. I saw the article in a copy of Popular Science Magazine.

It does appear to be genuine which is why I tracked the online article down.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Great giant step forward...for those that have health insurance...