RE: Replacement fingers grown?

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 13:21:53 MDT


At 08:59 PM 30/06/99 -0500, Billy wrote:

>Note, however, that they aren't growing any nerves or blood
>vessels in these artificial fingers.

Telly news last night reported that some Australian team have *new*
*breakthrough* method of making fake arteries out of synthetic gloop and
lining them with tweaked cells from the recipient, which allegedly makes
them viable and long-lasting for cardiac repair. Works in beastie trials,
soon human clinical tests. Sorry no URL.

Damien Broderick the partially informed



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