5 bizarre medical devices
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 26-09-2014
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Brain Cells From UrineA bizarre medical procedure in which researchers have turned pee into human brain cells.
At the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health in China, biologists are said to have taken waste cells from urine and modified them with the use of retroviruses to create progenitor cells, which is used in the body as the building blocks for brain cells.
The biggest medical advantage of getting cells from pee is that it’s freely available, and scientists can potentially work on developing neurons derived from the same person, increasing the chance that they’ll be accepted by the body more easily.