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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25725