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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. Â 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. Â Maybe you've heard something?
Michael Whiston
What do you think?
Hello from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Â 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. Â Maybe you've heard something?
Michael Whiston
What do you think?