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Grow Your Own Heart Valves 180

Posted by samzenpus from the congen-circulatory-sphincters dept.
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."

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