Breaking News
No, The Spanish Invaders Have Not All Just 'Gone Home'
From Influence Peddler To Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family Is Broke In Defaulting...
'Defend Israel Or The Homeland': Top US General Issues Stark Warning To Pentagon Brass
The Summer Slump in the Vegetable Garden (How We Survive!)
Top Tech News
Idaho's High Desert Becomes Hot Spot For Nuclear Power Revolution
The World's Largest Electric Aircraft Is About to Take Its First Flight
Tesla Cybercabs and Superchargers Will Act as Mini Cell Towers for SpaceX Starlink
Elon Vows AI-Made 'Odyssey' After Blasting Nolan's Take On Homer
Anthropic is launching its own drug discovery programs for rare diseases using Claude...
SpaceX AI Satellites Will Have 250 Kilowatts of Power
Chinese researchers have developed a sodium-metal battery that can fully charge in just 4 minutes...
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 in 3 Days - Thursday July 13
Chinese Scientists Develop Nuclear Battery Using Carbon-14
Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery
World's First 3D Printed Hearts And Functional Beating Hearts Grown From Stem Cells
That means almost 50% of the people needing a new heart to keep them alive won't get it. But now, scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have successfully grown a human heart from adult skin cells in a lab. In addition, researchers from Tel Aviv University have "printed" the world's first 3D vascularized engineered heart using a patient's own cells and biological materials. Their research may someday soon solve the shortage problem of hearts the world faces today.
In the study done by the scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical school, they grew a heart using stem cells then shocked it with an electric current to bring it to life.
Here's what they did: