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January 19, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467732076&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel Grows Beating Heart Tissue, Blood Vessels

[Jerusalem Post] Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - Beating cardiac tissue has been created in the lab from human embryonic stem cells by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's biomedical engineering faculty and the Rappaport Medical Faculty. In addition, researchers Dr. Shulamit Levenberg and Prof. Lior Gepstein also managed to bring about the creation of tiny blood vessels within the tissue, which makes possible its implantation in a human heart.

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