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Mitch Tobol
I'm creating the next big idea...
03.23.2013 (4024 days ago)

Build a heart

Build a heart
4024 days ago 6 comments Categories: Health Tags:

Dr. Francisco Fernandez-Aviles working at London's Royal Free Hospital has been building replacement parts for human bodies. So far he's "installed" 5 windpipes.

 

A Dr. Seifalian made tear ducts and an artery that are now living inside of people. He's made a nose he intends to use...on a patient who lost his to cancer. And as part of a clinical trial, he plans to transplant a coronary artery into a person later this year.

 

What's interesting is that the recipient doesn't need anti rejection drugs because the parts are built with the patient's own cells. These sci-fi doctors are able to do this because of stem cells.

 

And I just thought they had gotten hold of a replicator from Star Trek.

 
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