X-Message-Number: 25725
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:44:14 -0500
From: Jonathan Despres <>

Subject: Big News for you: Kidney cloned in rats (Steps Towards Replacement 
Organs)

Steps Towards Replacement Organs (We are near about a solution for
Cryonics! Not more than 100 years)

Tokyo, Feb. 23 (Kyodo): Researchers in Japan have succeeded in cloning
a human kidney by cultivating human stem cells extracted from adult
bone marrow into rat embryos, team members said.

The development is expected to increase the possibility of expanding
regenerative medicine to anatomically complicated organs such as the
kidney and lung as a potential means to treat patients with disorders
of those organs.

A report of the study, headed by Takashi Yokoo of the department of
internal medicine and gene therapy at Jikei University School of
Medicine in Japan, will be published in the online edition of US
publication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, dated
March 1.

According to Yokoo, the team removed rat embryos from the uterus,
implanted human stem cells     treated with neutrophic factor genes to
help the organ development     into the area in the embryos where the
kidneys were being generated and cultured the embryos in vitro.

http://www.nanoaging.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=974

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