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  Hearts from cadavers beat anew: study

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  paris (afp) in experiments that would make dr. frankenstein jealous, us scientists have coaxed recycled hearts taken from animal cadavers into beating in the laboratory after reseeding them with live cells, according to a study released sunday..

  if extended to humans, the procedure could provide an almost limitless supply of hearts, and possibly other organs, to millions of terminally ill people waiting helplessly for a new lease on life.

  approximately 50,000 patients in the united states alone die every year for lack of a donor heart, and some 22 million people worldwide are living with the threat of heart failure..

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  Antarctic is losing ice ‘nearly twice as fast as ten years ago’

  by kenai in

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  hi all, love this board.

  here is something some of you might find interesting:.

  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3181944.ece.

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