They learn how to save lives using small human organs made from fetal cells – La Linterna

For some time, researchers have been exploring creation of human organs in order to be able to perform transplants and save lives. With the help of animals, we have always strived to create compatibility between their organs and people.

But now there is an opportunity to create small human organs done through embryonic cells which make it possible to treat diseases even before birth.

In particular, it was a group 27 scientists and doctors from the UK, Italy and Belgium who managed to shape the lungs, intestines and kidneys of pregnant women without affecting their growth.

Likewise, this Wednesday in the program “La Linterna”, Angel Expósito and science commentator Jorge Alcalde analyzed this achievement of science, which is very important for the survival of many babies that are about to be born.

“It has the characteristics of what an organ will become in the future.”

The whistleblower explained that essentially what was done was “extracting stem cells from amniotic fluid 22 pregnant women” and see if they can be made later organoids.

Additionally, he wants to clarify that “they are not organs in themselves” but rather “a group of cells just a few millimetersa lump of tissue smaller than the head of a pin that has the characteristics of what an organ will be like in the future.”

The purpose of this, according to the popularizer, is “to use these groups of cells to study certain diseases, especially congenital diseases, that is, about diseases suffered by the fetus.” Some diseases, where they come from, we do not know, and for which there is no cure.

Why doesn’t this pose any risk to the fetus?

However, the mayor emphasizes that this investigation “It is not even produced from human embryos.and “it did not occur with cellular development.” By this he means that “non-invasive methods are used that do not involve no risk to mother and fetus

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The mayor explained that in the future they can be used”stem cells and turn them into a full-fledged organ” To this, the whistleblower assures that “this does not raise serious ethical problems.”