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LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE
Professor Doris Taylor, the "mother" of adult stem cell research, has pulled off her second miracle less than a decade after her first.
While at Duke University in 1998, she and her team fed young rats bad diets, causing heart disease, then she gave them stem cells from healthy young rats and the heart disease was substantially reduced. This led to worldwide animal studies in 1999, and, amazingly, human clinical trials in 2001 and 2002, which led to thousands of heart patients the world over now leading better and longer lives, thanks to the patients' own adult stem cells.
Now at University of Minnesota, her current team pulled off another miracle. Here is an interview from Canadian doctors working in the same field, which is making new tissue from adult stem cells, only THIS time, Prof. Taylor showed that and ENTIRE NEW HEART is possible and can someday replace the need for heart transplants. But before then, smaller items, such as heart valves and scar tissue will be possible.
"Canadian heart experts say new American research has brought us closer to a time when Star Trek-style replicators will be able to create human organs from thin air. Experts at the University of Minnesota have regrown a rat heart and brought it back to life, and Dr. Jason Dyck and Dr. John Mullen of the Mazankowski Heart Institute (Edmonton Canada) are calling it some of the most exciting news to hit the scientific world in years.
This new research means that one day we could grow a new human valve from the patient's own cells. It would last even longer and there would be essentially no risk of rejection."
He said re-cellularization research is 15 to 20 years away from clinical applications and is especially promising for transplants.
"The number of people who need heart transplants far exceeds the number of hearts available. The ultimate goal of this type of research would be to grow entirely new organs for people."
Until then, such research is more likely to foster smaller applications, such as making new tissue patches.
"You could see surgeons replacing scar tissue on an organ like the heart with actual cells that beat and grow into heart muscle tissue.
"The prospects are thrilling. We'll be keeping a close eye on the research."
Meanwhile, in the field of embryonics, the "miracle of the month" press release was the cloning of an embryonic executive. As with all embryonic miracles, it did nothing to bring treatments of diseased humans any closer, which some say is never.
DON MARGOLIS
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