Cell scientists aim to rebuild hearts with reprogrammed tissue - Polidicks

Keyword is aim. [QUOTE]Every two minutes someone in the UK has a heart attack. Every six minutes, someone dies from heart failure. During an attack, the heart remodels itself and dilates around the site of the injury to try to compensate, but these repairs are rarely effective. If the attack does not kill you, heart failure later frequently will.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Transplants have their own problems – successful operations require patients to remain on toxic, immune-suppressing drugs for life and their subsequent life expectancies are not usually longer than 20 years. The solution, emerging from the laboratories of several groups of scientists around the world, is to work out how to rebuild damaged hearts. Their weapons of choice are reprogrammed stem cells.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]It is an exciting time for a technology that no one thought possible a few years ago. In 2007, Shinya Yamanaka showed it was possible to turn adult skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), using just a few chemical factors. His technique radically advanced stem cell biology, sweeping aside years of blockages due to the ethical objections about using stem cells from embryos. He won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for his work in October. Researchers have taken this a step further – directly turning one mature cell type to another without going through a stem cell phase. [B]And politicians are taking notice[/B]. At the Royal Society in November, in his first major speech on the Treasury's ambitions for science and technology, the chancellor, George Osborne, identified regenerative medicine as one of eight areas of technology in which he wanted the UK to become a world leader. Earlier last year, the Lords science and technology committee launched an inquiry into the potential of regenerative medicine in the UK – not only the science but what regulatory obstacles there might be to turning the knowledge into medical applications.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jan/28/stem-cell-scientists-rebuild-hearts"]From[/URL]. [HR][/HR] I really hope this will be a success.

[QUOTE][IMG]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/2/1357134888807/heart-cells-reprogramme-010.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] W-what is yesterday's dinner doing here

Wonder what we'll come up with after we keep experimenting and researching things like these. 50 years later: [sp]MAN THIS IS JUST LIKE CALL OF DUTY I-- OH SHIT I GOT SHOT IN THE LIVER. LET ME TAKE COVER AND REGENERATE.[/sp] But seriously, these could be very useful.

[QUOTE=SirDavid255;39390056]Wonder what we'll come up with after we keep experimenting and researching things like these. 50 years later: [sp]MAN THIS IS JUST LIKE CALL OF DUTY I-- OH SHIT I GOT SHOT IN THE LIVER. LET ME TAKE COVER AND REGENERATE.[/sp] But seriously, these could be very useful.[/QUOTE] We could potentially engineer Duke Nukem's.

[QUOTE=gokiyono;39390208]We could potentially engineer Duke Nukem's.[/QUOTE] Man this Halo Fanfic you made is weird. I had no idea the ultimate super soldiers were pussy magnet 80s action heroes.

[QUOTE=doommarine23;39390314]Man this Halo Fanfic you made is weird. I had no idea the ultimate super soldiers were pussy magnet 80s action heroes.[/QUOTE] These soldiers doesn't need armor. [sp]Let's not derail this thread.[/sp]