Patient doing well with French company's artificial heart: report

Hi everyone,

-> Patient doing well with French company's artificial heart: report
A 75-year-old Frenchman was feeding himself and chatting to his family, more than a week after becoming the first person to be fitted with an artificial heart made by French biomedical company Carmat, one of his surgeons said.

yes it is a good alternative when donors are too scarse. I cross my fingers it will be successful.

Oh yes, very promising outcome!
Let's pray it'll be a success.

Hi Gérard what about cell potency. They are medecine future. These cells could turn into a new heart, a new liver etc It is an alternative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency

Totipotency is the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all of the differentiated cells in an organism,

Anyway Embryonic stem cell research poses a moral dilemma.
http://www.eurostemcell.org/factsheet/embyronic-stem-cell-research-ethical-dilemma

Embryonic stem cell research poses a moral dilemma. It forces us to choose between two moral principles:

• The duty to prevent or alleviate suffering
  
• The duty to respect the value of human life
  
  

This is the reason why  France is lagging behind the other countries