How to Make a Heart

The heart is a beautiful organ. When I was at Duke we started trying to quote, regenerate heart. We realized pretty quickly that cells were probably not going to be enough for people who already have heart failure and state heart failure. The simplicity of what we did really is take a heart from a cadaver and literally use soap. Same soap that's in shampoo actually. And wash the cells using the blood supply to that organ. Literally drip soap through it. You wash out all the dead cells. It actually looks a lot like Jell-O.