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Heart valve grown from stem cells1 min read

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This should be front page news. A team of scientists has been working for 10 years and has produced a heart valve from stem cells. Heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub, who led the team, said doctors could be using artificially grown heart components in transplants in three years.

The valve was grown from stem cells extracted from bone marrow. Oh wait, you mean they didn’t use embryonic stem cells to do this? Nevermind.