Building a New Heart From Old Tissue - I heart science?
Donated hearts for lifesaving transplants are scarce, but now researchers may have hit upon a way to generate the blood-pumping organs in the lab–at least in rats. The approach, which involves transplanting cells from a newborn rat onto the framework of an adult heart, produced [...]
Man’s heart stops after Red Bull overdose - weak sauce. OK, so “he consumed eight Red Bulls over five hours”. A can of Red Bull has 80 mg of caffeine. But drip coffee has 145 mg per cup. So 8 Red Bulls is really just under 4.5 cups of standard drip [...]
Closed-Heart Surgery - this is pretty cool… especially as I’ve been told I’ll probably be forced to have a heart valve replaced some time in the (distant) future.