February 19, 1999

Can Bioengineering Create a Human Heart?

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Researchers are planning a massive, decade-long collaboration to produce a supply of implantable human organs

Michael V. Sefton has another solution for the thousands of people around the world who desperately need human transplants to replace their diseased hearts: A huge supply of new, implantable human hearts grown from scratch with biotechnology.

"The idea is to have hearts on a shelf," ready for implantation into a patient

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