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The technique is to use the matrix of an organ and tissue to grow from a stem cell seeding

The artificial heart of the future could be biological. It’s not a pun. It would, in a few years if the process works, the closest thing to create a heart. But do not start from scratch. The novelty of the technique, explains the head of cardiology at the hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid Francisco Fernandez-Aviles is that it uses a kind of mold. In this case, it ruled out a heart transplant.

The first step is to treat this body with an enzymatic detergent to eliminate the donor cells. The result is that the flesh is dissolved, and allowed to clean the matrix of the heart (which would be if we were talking skeleton of bone or connective tissue made up of infrastructure in this case). From there, the structure is grown stem cells to regenerate heart. This step is complicated, but since there is a history (it has done with trachea and small animals, says Fernandez Aviles). But there is one step: that the structure, properly irrigated, is made to beat. Read the rest of this entry »