Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle

An anonymous reader writes "By taking skin cells and turning them into stem cells, a technique that is already well known, researchers at Technion Israel Institute of Technology were able to generate beating heart cells — a medical first. 'We have shown that it's possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his own beating cells in a laboratory dish that are healthy and young — the equivalent to the stage of his heart cells when he was just born,' Lior Gepstein, study author and professor of medicine said."

Re:WHAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE HIDING!

[Nidi62]

Can we bring back the my clean pc guy? At least his spam posts are shorter and more entertaining to read.

Re:A question for the bio geeks..

[cvtan]

That means you could literally make a politician out of a horses ass!

Re:More of this, please

[Spiked_Three]

My head is ugly. I want all new please.

Re:Where's George Bush?

[Spiked_Three]

they cloned him as Mitt Romney and he is on the way, patience.

Re:More of this, please

[Adriax]

The toggle for the host computer's perception speed had better resemble a 386SX-16 turbo button or I wouldn't even bother.

Re:WHAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE HIDING!

[slashchuck]

Slashdot should reduce the font size of the Troll/Flamebait postings. It will cut down on the disk space used.

Re:More of this, please

[Lynchenstein]

If they could clone and replace "certain" organs with, oh, say, perhaps, LARGER versions, they could pay for all future research with the proceeds of this technique.

Of course *I* don't need this, but I'm sure *others* might...

Re:More of this, please

[K. S. Kyosuke]

The toggle for the host computer's perception speed had better resemble a 386SX-16 turbo button or I wouldn't even bother.

Yes, but if you're already inside the computer, how do you press the button?

Re:A question for the bio geeks..

[ThatsNotPudding]

Unless you wear string bikinis, most folks have plenty of skin that never sees the sun.

Taint: is there nothing it can't do?

Re:So it only goes to follow...

[tomhuxley]

Finally a real use for Segways!