• Vein grown from stem cells saves 10-year-old girl
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[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/vein-grown-stem-cells-saves-10-old-girl-231221952.html[/URL] [QUOTE]LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors in Sweden have replaced a vital blocked blood vessel in a 10-year-old girl using the first vein grown in a lab from a[B] patient's own stem cells[/B]. The successful transplant operation, reported online in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday, marks a further advance in the search for ways to make new body parts. [B]It could open the door to stem cell-based grafts for heart bypass and dialysis patients who lack suitable blood vessels for replacement surgery[/B], and the Swedish team said it is now working with an undisclosed company to commercialize the process. "I'm very optimistic that in the near future we will be able to get both arteries and veins transplanted on a large scale," said Suchitra Sumitran- Holgersson, professor of transplantation biology at theUniversity of Gothenburg, and a member of the team that performed the operation in March 2011. The advantage of using tissue grown from a patient's own cells is that there is no risk of organ rejection and hence no need for lifelong immunosuppressive drugs. Four years ago, a 30-year-old woman received the world's first transplant of a tailor-made windpipe, grown in a similar way by seeding a stripped- down donor organ with her own stem cells. Other such trachea operations have followed since. The latest case involved a young girl with an obstructed hepatic portal vein, which drains blood from the intestines and spleen to the liver. Its blockage can be fatal. [B]The team from the University of Gothenburg took a 9 cm (3.5 inch) section of groin vein from a deceased donor and removed all the living cells, leaving just a protein scaffold tube. Stem cells extracted from the girl's bone marrow were then injected onto the tube and two weeks later the graft was implanted.[/B] The new blood vessel immediately restored normal blood flow, the doctors said, although after a year it narrowed and a second stem cell-based graft was needed. Martin Birchall and George Hamilton of University College London said in a commentary in The Lancet that the Swedish doctors had spared the young girl the trauma of having veins harvested from deep in her neck or leg and avoided the need for a liver transplant. But they cautioned the technique now needed to be tested in clinical trials and developed into a straightforward quality-controlled production process. Sumitran-Holgersson said her team had already simplified the process and was now able to harvest stem cells from blood rather than bone marrow. She aims to test the technique with arteries later this year. "You are going to see more and more of these personalized grafts in future," she said in a telephone interview. The university has also linked up with a Swedish company, which Sumitran-Holgersson declined to identify, to explore how to commercialize the technique. This could involve offering "off-the-shelf" scaffolds from which tailor-made blood vessels could then be built. Around the world, scientists in the emerging field of regenerative medicine are working to engineer many different human organs and tissues in the lab, including lungs and hearts. Building such complex organs is a lot more challenging than making blood vessels, however, since veins are relatively simple hollow structures with few engineering demands. [/QUOTE]
I think I speak for everyone when I say: Fuck yeah, science!
I also think I speak for everyone when I say Take That Creationists! An epic milestone in evidence-based medicine has been reached.
Please post the source, I need to share it
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36320321]I also think I speak for everyone when I say Take That Creationists! An epic milestone in evidence-based medicine has been reached.[/QUOTE] This has nothing to do with creationism.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36320321]I also think I speak for everyone when I say Take That Creationists! An epic milestone in evidence-based medicine has been reached.[/QUOTE] Speak for all the assholes, to be exact
And naturally, in classic Facepunch Style: [b]WHY ARE WE NOT SUPPORTING THIS?[/b]
I can't wait until we can grow bigger stuff like limbs and bone joints.
So they took a dead guy's vein, revived it with stem cells, and then transplanted it? Neat.
one day we will be remarking entire chests/legs/arms out of stem cells.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36320321]I also think I speak for everyone when I say Take That Creationists! An epic milestone in evidence-based medicine has been reached.[/QUOTE] I know it's easy for FP to get into creationalist vs. anticreationalist debate on religion related threads, but this is a record breaker for trying to stir shit up. Anyways, it's nice to hear some good news. I love how well medicine has advanced to this point. It makes me feel more secure if one of my parts goes bad.
I hope we can make penises with stem cells. Then I can graft one onto someone's forehead.
[QUOTE=zombini;36320805]This has nothing to do with creationism.[/QUOTE] are you all dense? creationism is heavily against stem cell research.
[QUOTE=Amplar;36322334]are you all dense? creationism is heavily against stem cell research.[/QUOTE] And? This still specifically has nothing to do with creationism, unless it mentions in the article that creationists protested this. Honestly people need to stop dragging religion into everything.
[QUOTE=Amplar;36322334]are you all dense? creationism is heavily against stem cell research.[/QUOTE] No, you are. Certain people who believe in creationism are heavily against stem cell research. A group of retarded people believes in first and forbade the other, but it's not warranted, and there are plentiful creationists (I wouldn't be surprised if it was the majority) who support the research. You just only hear the loud retards and make your picture based on that.
Source
/Respect for the team that got it done
I want a stop motion of a vein manifesting in a test tube
Can you grow penis out of stem cells?
Can you grow a vagina out of stem cells?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;36322416]No, you are. Certain people who believe in creationism are heavily against stem cell research. A group of retarded people believes in first and forbade the other, but it's not warranted, and there are plentiful creationists (I wouldn't be surprised if it was the majority) who support the research. You just only hear the loud retards and make your picture based on that.[/QUOTE] andre's post meant he was sticking this to the dumbass creationists, science that they find heresy saved a little girl's life.
[QUOTE=Amplar;36322334]are you all dense? creationism is heavily against stem cell research.[/QUOTE] Have you ever stopped to consider that religious people aren't a hive mind with identical opinions?
[QUOTE=Amplar;36322831]andre's post meant he was sticking this to the dumbass creationists, science that they find heresy saved a little girl's life.[/QUOTE] This thread had nothing to do with anything until Andre even mentioned it.
[QUOTE=minilandstan;36322951]Have you ever stopped to consider that religious people aren't a hive mind with identical opinions?[/QUOTE] Well,people whom believe in creationism generally tend to have the intelligence of a potato,so there's no reason for them to support stem cell research nor science.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36320321]I also think I speak for everyone when I say Take That Creationists! An epic milestone in evidence-based medicine has been reached.[/QUOTE] I think you meant to say supporters of alternative medicine.
We also just cured someone of HIV with stem cells. fuck yes science
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;36323153]I think you meant to say supporters of alternative medicine.[/QUOTE] Alternative? More like bullshit medicine.
Creationism has nothing against stem cells. Creationists do! To Quote Gandhi. "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians but I like your Christ." Anywho yes, It's my firm belief that scientific advancement for the sake of improving human life is not just a good thing but a downright necessity. This can only mean GOOD things.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;36321716]So they took a dead guy's vein, revived it with stem cells, and then transplanted it? Neat.[/QUOTE] Imagine if this could be done with bodies. Technically zombies, practically empty shells, not even sure they'd retain basic instincts.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36323810]Alternative? More like bullshit medicine.[/QUOTE] I once read about an experiment involving cows and alternative medicene suggesting it ,might not be a complete load of bull (sorry... HAD to) Anywho I'll try and find a source. [editline]14th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE='[Green];36323832']Imagine if this could be done with bodies. Technically zombies, practically empty shells, not even sure they'd retain basic instincts.[/QUOTE] Well the heart muscles will automatically beat as long as they are provided with sufficient nutrient. Just put the damn thing on a respirator with a drip and voilà! Human body spares storage.
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