Friday, January 19, 2007
I think Saudi Arabia develops...Wahhabism or something...
Israel grows beating heart tissue, blood vessels
Beating cardiac tissue has been created in the lab from human embryonic stem cells by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's biomedical engineering faculty and the Rappaport Medical Faculty. In addition, researchers Dr. Shulamit Levenberg and Prof. Lior Gepstein also managed to bring about the creation of tiny blood vessels within the tissue, which makes possible their tissue's implantation in a human heart.
With help from doctoral student Oren Caspi and master's degree student Ayelet Lassman, the Technion researchers said that without the new blood vessels, the tissue would be likely to die quickly. "In our work," said Levenberg, "we showed the importance of endothelial cells (from which coronary vessels are composed) that induce the differentiation of stem cells into heart cells and their organization as tissue and encourage their multiplication. That is, it's important to create cardiac tissue with all the cells that compose them. In this case, it is endothelial cells, cardiac cells and cells that support blood vessels."...
Isn't it weird that you hear nothing about this in the MSM. I didn't know that Israel had produced anything of distinction in the sciences until I started reading about it online. Maybe it's because I don't read science journals. But you would think you'd hear something!
The truth be told Israel has given a lot in technological advances in return for that "Camp David Accord investment".
The savings American companies have made by having the Israelis R&D IT, agricultural, military and medical advances should be made public to put into perspective what has accrued to the American economy.
From the ubiquitous cell phone through the memory stick, the medical advances that the man in the street can identify with to agricultural technology deals between States such as Ohio and Israeli universities.