Scientists were able to create a rat heart from stem cells, and they are working on a pig heart next (which is compatible with humans). Pretty exciting:
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And 20 years after they create the first human heart from stem cells will the legislation be loose enough for someone to receive a transplant of their own cloned heart. Plus up to 30 years for the technology and skills to become available in your particular corner of the world, perhaps more if you happen to live in a third world country.
WHOA, that’s intense! Within a week it was beating! I wonder if it beats on it’s own? Or if they feed it electrical impulses?
@Proto quite pessimistic?
This is unmitigatedly cool. Science takes back a little more of the world. Stuff like this makes me smile.
I wanted to share with people who say” junk” DNA is junk.
http://www.physorg.com/news145038245.html
This latest from science. junk DNA may not be so junky after all.
Junk DNA as a term is misleading. DNA has an amazing ability to find uses for nearly everything. It is like a tinker wandering around the scrapyard, finding little bits to add in that do this and that. No matter where the DNA comes from, and a fair bit comes wandering in through viral sources over the millenia, if it manages to crank out a protein that is useful for something, the cell will keep it.
That’s the amazing thing about how the system works. Inheritable trait + varying levels of procreative success = the most flexible system imaginable.
@Proto
That it will eventually happen (barring intervention by religious moralizers) is better than never.
I heard that scientists could do this as much as 4 years ago but the pharmaceutical companies have fought the development of it because it is better for them to keep people sick and on drugs than actually cure anyone.
@murrowcronkite: Sounds like another conspiracy theory. If anyone hampered things like this, it would be Christians, who have been against using and harvesting stem cells from the start.
(Though what you say COULD be true — anything could be. Just need some real evidence, and not just conspiracy stuff.)
You’ve started to see how the Bush administration used the religious right to enrich the robber baron energy and pharmaceutical companies.
Why not use a superstitious belief to hold back science and futher the uber rich while oppresing the 99+% of working and poor people on the planet ?