Scientists Grow Blood Vessels Using Skin Cells

rubberbando writes "The new york times is running a story about how scientists have discovered a way to grow new blood vessels using skin cells. Since the blood vessels are grown using the patient's own skin cells, there isn't any chance for rejection. This looks to be quite a boon for people who have several damaged blood vessels from diseases such as diabetes. Perhaps one day they will be able to apply this technology/technique to creating other parts of the body and rid us of the whole stem cell controversy. Only time will tell."

Meat factories

[backslashdot]

Maybe we can grow steak this way too .. in large vats. Get rid of the animal rights issues that way.

Yumm.

Re:Science!

[zoloto]

You know what I'd personally enjoy? Structural modifications of the not so visible kind. How cool would it be to have your major arteries "reinforced" with some sort of external metallic mesh? No more going for the jugular!

Re:Science!

[whitehatlurker]

what are you all doing to make the world a better place?

Ummm - I'm sitting here, reading slashdot ... doing that prevents me from being on the streets, which I think we can all agree makes the world a better place.

Re:Takes out the mystery?

[Anonymous Coward]

As for taking the mystery out of things, I think it's just the opposite. The more you understand the universe, the more wonderful it seems. I don't see how knowing the mechanics of cells creates an argument for atheism, as [OP seems] to imply.

Nor does knowing, or not knowing, the mechanics of cells require the invocation of an alleged $sys$deity.

Re:Science!

[ozmanjusri]

what are you all doing to make the world a better place?

Well, last night I experimented with applied pharmacology and was able to make my part of the world into a much better place.

It was looking fairly seedy again this morning though, so I might have to repeat the dose. It's for the good of humanity, after all.

Re:Get rid of the stem cell controversy?

[Proney]

Religion and God are meta-physical concepts, while science is the study of the physical world.
... as long as you aren't in Kansas.