First Synthetic Organ Transplant!!! [REPO MEN]

This little iteme was the first synthetic organ to be transplanted into a real live person.  the possibilities are endless.  Which reminds me If You Could Live Forever Would You Want To? In Your Lifetime The Option Could Be Up To You.

Excerpts from articles about the operation below.

 

For the first time in history, a patient has been implanted with a synthetic windpipe that was created using the patient’s stem cells and a replica of his original windpipe. It’s amazing even though it kinda looks like PVC piping

It’s the future of medical science: there’s no donor needed and no depressingly long wait times. Scientists from London created the replica using 3D scans of the 36-year-old patient. The material was made from polymers with a spongy and flexible texture with stiff rings around the tube to recreate a more human-like trachea. They coated and soaked the trachea model in a solution of stem cell’s taken from the patient’s bone marrow and after two days, the patient’s own tissues had grown to cover replica. It looked like this:

According to the Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a professor at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm that performed the surgery, said the “stem cells from the own patient were growing inside and outside. This structure was becoming a living structure.” It’s been a month since the surgery and the patient’s body has accepted the synthetic organ and he should be released soon. The doctors hope that it can lead to more artificial organs for future transplants. Not cloning! [CNN, Image Credit: Harvard Bio Science] 

Originally posted here –> Surgeons Perform the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant

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Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant.

Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient.

Crucially, the technique does not need a donor, and there is no risk of the organ being rejected. The surgeons stress a windpipe can also be made within days.

The 36-year-old cancer patient is doing well a month after the operation.

Professor Paolo Macchiarini from Italy led the pioneering surgery, which took place at the Karolinska University Hospital.

In an interview with the BBC, he said he now hopes to use the technique to treat a nine-month-old child in Korea who was born with a malformed windpipe or trachea.

Professor Macchiarini already has 10 other windpipe transplants under his belt – most notably the world’s first tissue-engineered tracheal transplant in 2008 on 30-year-old Spanish woman Claudia Costillo – but all required a donor

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Magic Mushrooms Are Good For Your Soul, And Your Doctor Agrees.

This study is threatening to break down barriers between the recreational drug users and the prescription drug users.  A new study has found how to properly control the dosage of the active chemical in magic mushrooms so that it can be used to a positive affect without any side effects.

Most prescription anti depressants have close to 500 listed possible side effects, this would completely change the industry.

Article After the Jump –> Far out: Magic mushrooms could have medical benefits, researchers say

Quotes from the Article:

• “More important, 89 percent reported lasting, positive changes in their behavior–better relationships with others, for instance, or increased care for their own mental and physical well-being. Those assessments were corroborated by family members and others.”
• “I think my heart is more open to all interactions with other people,” one volunteer reported in a questionnaire given to participants 14-months after their session.
• “I feel that I relate better in my marriage,” wrote another. “There is more empathy — a greater understanding of people, and understanding their difficulties, and less judgment.”
• “I don’t think it was the drug that did it,” she said. “It was the drug that helped me find the clarity.”
• “When you see people undergoing that kind of transformation,” he added, “it’s really quite moving.”

As I have said all along its not what they help you seen on the outside that counts (even if it is fun), its what the chemical forces you to realize about yourself on the inside that makes the difference.