Dr. Doris Taylor, Director of Regenerative Medicine Research at Texas Heart Institute, holds a heart scaffold which many believe is the first step toward being able to grow new replacement hearts -- and other organs -- for people, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in Houston. Dr. Taylor her team garnered international recognition for her work involving "whole organ decellularization," in which they showed they can remove the existing cells from hearts of laboratory animals and even humans to leave a framework for building new organs. By then repopulating the framework with another human adult stem cells and giving it a blood supply, the heart regenerates, taking on the characteristics and functions of a revitalized beating heart.
Taylor predicts that in the next two years, she and her team will approach the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and ask to do a first-in-human study with the bio-artificial hearts.
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With all the bad news these days, this sounds pretty good.
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