For millions of Americans with heart disease and failure, a breakthrough development could save their lives. More than half a million people die in the United States from heart failure each year, thousands of them while awaiting a transplant. But with the release of a new scientific paper comes a potential solution to the deficiency: growing new ones.
That's exactly what a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) set out to do. Their work, published this week in the journal Circulation Research, proves the idea has the potential to be a game changer. Using skin cells reprogrammed into stem cells, the researchers were able to generate functional heart tissue.
San Francisco graphic designer Brian Pollett, aka Pixel-Pusha, pusha-ed himself to the limit by doing a new drug every day for twenty days and making art.
"The Binge project is inspired by my early explorations with psychedelics and electronic music parties," Pollet explained. "At this point in my life I desire to express what I've learned from psychedelics, the creative process, and electronic music."
More than 31 people killed and many seriously injured in attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station. Twin blasts hit Zaventem airport at 07:00 GMT, killing 11 and injuring 81, Belgium's health minister said. Another explosion struck Maelbeek metro station an hour later with 20 people killed, the Brussels mayor said. Belgium has raised its terrorism threat to its highest level. Three days of national mourning have been declared.
Newly discovered letters once again reveal that Darwin was a passionate and loving family man. Even so, every aspect of his personal life was devoted to his understanding of the natural world.
When William Erasmus Darwin was born in December 1839, his father Charles began to meticulously record observations of his firstborn in a notebook. Now housed at Cambridge University Library, it reads more like a research document than like that of a new parent blissfully observing his son's behaviour, as the opening comments reveal: "During first week, yawned, streatched [sic] himself just like old person – chiefly upper extremities – hiccupped – sneezes sucked...."