My heart beat for the first time in the lab

American scientists have reported a stunning discovery: the first was to make the heart beat in the laboratory. The essence of the experiment was to take the hearts of dead animals (rats and pigs ), to remove all cells, leaving only the extracellular material, and then do in cardiac tissue from the injection of living cells, which are taken from the body of newborn animals. The results were positive: eight days after being placed in the hearts of laboratory conditions, they began to fight.

The successful experiment of American Scientists gives hope to hundreds of thousands of patients who are waiting for donor organs for long periods. As you know, even after all suitable, not all organ transplants go smoothly, because the body often does not take an alien body.

New technology, known as ' removal of cells ' (decellularization), solves the problem of donor organs, since the donor is the patient. Physicians will be able to just take it as stem cells and ' update ' heart.

Moreover, scientists now say that if further experiments are successful, they will be able to ' build ' any other body, not just the heart.

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