Grow Your Own Heart Valves

A user writes "Medical researchers in Britain have succeeded in growing a heart valve from adult stem cells taken from bone marrow. The research is being reported in the journal of the Royal Society today. Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue."

Preventing Rejection

[pscottdv]

Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue

What slashdotters need is a way to grow a girlfriend from their own cells.

Re:Preventing Rejection

[Applekid]

If you have sex with your own clone, is that still incest?

Masturbation perhaps?

That's nothing!

[aadvancedGIR]

Real geeks build their own pacemaker.

New Valve?

[Double Entendre]

I'm open to it.

Too soon?

Being reported in theJournal of the Royal Society?

[jimicus]

If it's being reported in a proper journal, do we have a link to the journal itself rather than something from the Daily Hysteria?

The Daily Mail is famous for blowing medical reports out of all proportion - they "cure cancer" an average of 2 or 3 times a year.

OEM parts

[thejuggler]

I guess this means that we are now using OEM parts instead of third-party knock-offs.

Been there, done that

[marol]

I grew my own heart valve once.

Re:php

[Cervantes]

...and should've been aborted while your parents had the chance.

Ironically, that may have helped further embryonic stem cell research...