Fish that regrows cardiac tissue could mend human hearts
Scientists hope to end heart transplant surgery forever with the help of the amazing zebrafish.
SUPERFISH: Miracle fish from the Ganges River can repair 20 percent of its heart in just a week's time. (Photo: Wiki Commons) Comments
Zebra fish have ability to regrow a teasure and the salamander can regrow limbs. Once scientist unlock these mechanism, this could lead to regowth of human hearts and limbs.
This is an amazing breakthrough scientific discovery, and my grandpa has a weak heart and I just hope this works out!!!
I've had several.They are beautiful fish
That is great news! I actually have four of them in my aquarium. They are beautiful fish and very peaceful.
It must be the Omega 3 fish oil :-0
That story just about gave me a heart attack.
How do I get the fish inside my chest?
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The stem cells in the human heart can be activated by taking enough Vitamin C. You will need at least 2000 mg of Vitamin C a day. This has been known since 2003, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2914589.stm
Two time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling proposed using Vitamin C and other nutrients to prevent and cure heart disease: .... More
I think maybe you should read that link you posted again and maybe clarify..."In an exhausting process, they mixed stem cells with a total of 880 "bioactive" substances to see if any of them nudged the embryonic cells into heart muscle cells.
Only one had any effect whatsoever - vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, which turned the embryonic stem cells into cardiac myocytes - heart muscle cells." -From the link...This is in a dish in a lab not in a patient..they go on to say they are not even.... More
Science will study everything on this planet that it is aware of. sceintists observe and then theorize.
10 minutes, growing your own heart is a stroll in the park.
How in the hell would anyone ever know that such a fish could regenerate its own damaged heart tissue? Hey, look at that fish, lets start experimenting on it.
It sounds funny, but zebrafish are one of the more popular subjects of scientific research, because they are small, easily grown, and are transparent as embryos so scientists can study how they develop and grow. Researchers at the University of Oregon picked them as a more complex organism than the yeast, worms and flies that have been studied for a long time. Once an organism is used for research, people ask all sorts of questions about.
I totally agreed with your comment and had to laugh. I stand in sheer amazement about the research being done and the knowledge accumulated by our scientific community and how little attention it gets in our media. To me, the things being studied in reality are more mind-blowing than any religion could ever be. Yet our culture values mindless celebrity and vacuous entertainment instead of the real wonders out there. Kudos to Mother Nature Network for bringing us some of this wonder. Anyone else.... More
Science outcome is whatever the scientist wants it to be. I think most science is a hoax.
Your right. All products of science are a big hoax.
This Internet thing you just used to post that comment... not real... we just *faked* the internet thing with chalk boards and cans attached with strings. Not real.
Moon landing... all fake.
Penicillin... phony...
Genetic transduction as cancer treatment... just snake oil...
Man! We almost put one over on *you*... but you were just *too* fast for us!
Really? Hoax? Wow.
Urea is a is an antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral agent. It contains minerals and enzymes that when applied to skin prevent cell deterioration(anti-aging). Also keeps skin clean and healthy. Urea is naturally produced by our bodies and is found in URINE. Thats right . Your pee pee. To ensure purity and quality the first urine of the day mid stream is the best sample. Grab some toilet paper pee in it and apply generous amounts in the face neck or any part of the body. If you suffer.... More
UREA doesn't contain anything. It is a small molecule made up of amines and a carbonyl group. It is a chemical.
'contains minerals and enzymes that when applied to skin...' Seriously?
"...but the human heart also contains a significant number of latent stem cells that could be stimulated to regenerate cardiac tissue..."
Just wondering, would it be possible to exhaust that supply? Say you've got someone with numerous heart issues. Would it be possible to use up that supply with congenital heart problems?
The definiteion of a stem cell is that it is a cell that divides to make one copy of itself and one of somethign else (in this case, cardiac cells). So you can't exhaust a suplly of stem cells because they maintain their own numbers. Cool, no?
Your definition is traditionally correct unless there's a perturbation of the system. Stem cells are hypothesized to divide asymmetrically (one daughter is a stem cell, the other daughter is a committed progenitor cell) under "normal" regeneration. Sometimes the cells divide symmetrically (either both stem cells or both committed progenitors). We don't know why this happens one way or the other (yet...)
If everybody is going to be living longer we'll need more parking spaces.
Maybe one day we can cure anybody of any ailment, and billions of people will live much longer than than they would have otherwise. Then the world will be even more over-populated than it is now, and there will be even more poverty and famine! Way to go!!
Actually in countries where you have higher longevity, the actual population drops and is propped up by third world countries through immigration.
what a funny comment....
so basically you're part of the problem...
Decrease the surplus population!
These are typically called "Zebra Danios", to avoid confusion with the "Red Lionfish", which is also called "Zebrafish".
Actually, Zebra Danio is the trade name they are sold under to aquarium hobbiests. Zebrafish was standard name of the fish itself.
Thank you for pointing that out! Big difference between the two.
"We have a burgeoning epidemic of heart failure". There is really the proven and time tested solution that is cheap and requires no research. ITS CALLED EAT RIGHT!
There has also been great advances with lizard dna being used to grow human muscles, including heart tissue. I don't see how this fish breakthrough will entirely end transplants . . .my new novel focuses on heart disease and the fresh start a new heart can provide. THE COMMODITY OF LOVE.
