Ezekiel 36:26(KJV) - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Recently, I laid my eyes on a fascinating bit of information. On Monday, November 14, 2011, Caleb Hellerman of CNN published the article, "Studies: Stem cells reverse heart damage."
Here's a quote;
At Cedars-Sinai, 17 patients, including Milles, were given stem cells approximately six weeks after suffering a moderate to major heart attack. All had lost enough tissue to put them "at big risk" of future heart failure, according to Dr. Eduardo Marban, the director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, who developed the stem cell procedure used there.
The results were striking. Not only did scar tissue retreat -- shrinking 40% in Ken Milles, and between 30% and 47% in other test subjects -- but the patients actually generated new heart tissue. On average, the stem cell recipients grew the equivalent of 600 million new heart cells, according to Marban, who used MRI imaging to measure changes. By way of perspective, a major heart attack might kill off a billion cells.
"This is unprecedented, the first time anyone has grown living heart muscle," says Marban. "No one else has demonstrated that. It's very gratifying, especially when the conventional teaching has been that the damage is irreversible."
Perhaps even more important, no treated patient in either study suffered a significant health setback.
Developing human organs from stem cells is so serious. On July 8th, I told you about the "man-made urethra" that was successfully implanted. Two days earlier I shared even more mind-blowing information in "Immortality: A Scientific Phenomenon?" Today, I'm letting you in on the use of stem cells to grow new heart cells. Why is all of this research so game-changing?
Here's a quote from each of those two previous articles;
Two days ago, Yahoo News published the article; "Who wants to live forever? Scientist sees aging cured" written by Health and Science Correspondent Kate Kelland. Here's a quote from the very interesting article;
LONDON (Reuters) – If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.
A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to "cure" aging -- banishing diseases that come with it and extending life indefinitely.
"I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so," de Grey said in an interview before delivering a lecture at Britain's Royal Institution academy of science.
Matthew 24:36-39(NLT) - “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows. “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. In those days before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat. People didn’t realize what was going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away. That is the way it will be when the Son of Man comes.
After reading Wednesday's article "Immortality: A Scientific Phenomenon?" one of my colleagues made a startling suggestion. Jesus said that at His return it will be like the Days of Noah. He highlighted specific characteristics of those days but left out one important detail that now is being broached among scientists. In Noah's day, people lived much longer than they do now. In fact, it was in Noah's day that God made the following statement.
Genesis 6:3(KJV) - And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
When you compare the lifespans of people before Noah's flood and after you will realize a significant drop. They decreased from hundreds of years to less than one hundred and twenty.
In Wednesday's article, I made the following quote; "If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger."
If developments in stem cell research, bio-engineering and synthetic biology continue in the direction they are going, we may see a return to the Days of Noah. If that's the case, you know what's supposed to take place when that happens.
Welcome to the new era of medical advancement! Welcome to The Days of Noah!
