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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / How are blood cells used as stem cells for cardiac repair?
« on: 22/02/2010 15:30:02 »
Michael Whiston asked the Naked Scientists:
Hello from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Love your show!
I had a heart attack on the 30th. of Nov. 09 and was asked to help with a Stem Cell research program at St. Micheal's Hospital.
They hooked me up to a dialysis's machine, it was wired differently, to extract only white cells. After the white cells have been retrieved they were to be feed, in a Petri dish, changed in some way into a heart tissue cell and in a couple of weeks they would be reintroduced into the original host.
I was lead to understand that this was being studied elsewhere but have heard nothing. Maybe you've heard something?
Michael Whiston
What do you think?
Hello from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Love your show!
I had a heart attack on the 30th. of Nov. 09 and was asked to help with a Stem Cell research program at St. Micheal's Hospital.
They hooked me up to a dialysis's machine, it was wired differently, to extract only white cells. After the white cells have been retrieved they were to be feed, in a Petri dish, changed in some way into a heart tissue cell and in a couple of weeks they would be reintroduced into the original host.
I was lead to understand that this was being studied elsewhere but have heard nothing. Maybe you've heard something?
Michael Whiston
What do you think?