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Professor Doris Taylor and her research team at the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair have taken a huge step toward creating organs that can be made out of one's own cells. By taking a seemingly dead heart and flushing out its cells, the old organ is left as a scaffolding of possibility. The team injects the empty heart with a new crop of living cells. These cells begin to react and after about a week, the heart beings to pump. These new organs could become transplants built from a recipient's own cells, thereby reducing the chance of rejection. The hope is that one day people will become their own donors.
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