heart valve from stem cells?

[starfish11040]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/research/20stemcell.html?_r=1

Are they working on this technique toward growing heart valves?

 

[Roger Frank]

There are several research companies (I've forgotten their name) growing new valves. I was in contact with one of them prior to my AVR but was told we were talking at least fifteen years.

Who knows...these amazing breakthroughs are progressing at warp speed...