Scientists create heart cells from skin cells

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:26 AM EST

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"Israeli scientists have developed a way to create beating heart cells with skin cells reprogrammed to become stem cells, making it possible to one day clinically repair a damaged heart.

Israeli scientists have discovered a way to create beating heart cells using human skin cells reprogrammed to become stem cells. The findings could lead to advances in disease research, and could in theory be used to repair damaged or diseased tissues.

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Nearly eight years ago, Gepstein and colleagues made headlines by creating beating cardiac tissue in the lab from human embryonic stem cells. In 2007, he teamed with the Technion's Dr. Shulamit Levenberg to create tiny blood vessels within the tissue. This breakthrough could eventually make it possible to implant the tissue in a diseased human heart.

The findings could also someday lead to advances in research on diseases caused by single-gene mutations. The list of these diseases includes familial arrhythmogenic syndromes leading to irregular heartbeat and sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathies that weaken the heart muscle, and several neurodegenerative disorders.

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#1 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:27 AM EST

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Bob Nelson.

Good seed.

I wonder if we'll be ready to assume the moral/economic/social/population consequences of this work by the time the research is complete...

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#2 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:06 AM EST

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Right to Secede

More evidence adult stem cells are capable of doing anything embryonic stem cells can?

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#3 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:45 AM EST

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Bob Nelson.

Looks that way...

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#3.1 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:05 AM EST

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Liberal Madmama

We've discussed this in a biology class I'm taking. It does indeed seem that human skin cells can be reprogrammed to behave like stem cells. They believe this research is going to replace the need for embryonic stem cells.

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#3.2 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:14 AM EST

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krishna-167929

We've discussed this in a biology class I'm taking. It does indeed seem that human skin cells can be reprogrammed to behave like stem cells. They believe this research is going to replace the need for embryonic stem cells.

I not an expert in this field by any means-- but given the way science keeps advancing, my guerss is that they will eventually find a way to do that.

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#3.3 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:20 PM EST

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