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British scientists from Cambridge University have made a remarkable break through that could save thousands of lives.

They have found a way to grow all three main types of cells in a laboratory. This remarkable breakthrough to the scientist 4 years and will save people who are suffering from heart attacks and strokes. If that’s not enough good news they say that they could produce this on an industrial scale.

The stem cells can be injected into the heart and then given time will develop into an artery or they can grow them in a test tube.

Using animals organs for transplantation in to humans is nothing new but it has been tested before but unfortuantily it has not got very far with the human body rejecting these animal organs. But now researchers are saying that this could soon become reallity. In august a patient in london was the first to have his heart replaced with a mechanical one. This shows signs that soon humans may be able to have animal transplants.

The answear to why this method may work is that because a researcher named Dr. David Cooper has suggested that rejection from the human body can be overcome. He uses pigs as an example and says that  some pigs no longer produce pig protein or galactosyltransferase which there immune system would have instanty attacked.

Stem cells are known to be the next big thing but it is going take years and years before we can use them for heart transplants. For now we can use them for simple structures such as the windpipe.

Animal transplantation could be the answear to UK’s long transplant waiting list if it is successful and could save many peoples lifes