Saturday, June 28, 2014

Paolo Macchiarini at Forefront of This Medical Breakthrough

   He uses not an organ from another person and transplants it, but rather he fashions out of the person's own stem cells taken from bone marrow, and he creates a new organ.
   Is this to be considered an artificial organ? I believe the word being used is bio-artificial.
   Dr. Paolo Macchiarini of Italy is the leader in this breakthrough technology, accepting cases that other doctors will not. "As a human and as a doctor, are we allowed to say, 'No'? I don't think so," Macchiarini has said.
  While bio-artificial wind pipes have been planted in patients, this new, science fiction like technology is yet to be applied to such things as artificial hearts. The advantage of fashioning the replacement organs out of ones own body is that you sidestep the body's rejection to parts that come from other humans, and, therefore, of course, you do not need the anti-rejection medications.

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