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A U.S teenager survived four months without a heart
Doctors at Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami kept a U.S teenager called D’Zhana Simmons from South Carolina alive for 118 days without a heart. They used custom-built artificial blood-pumping machine, until she was able to have a heart transplant.
Simmons said, living without a heart for a long time under with a blood pumping [...]
Red Meat Could Promote Cancer Progression - Study Suggests
I eat red meat at least twice a week, but I have never thought that it would spur cancer progression. This is whatU.S researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered, “inflammation from a molecule introduced through consumption of red meat and dairy products could promote tumor growth.”
The study was [...]
Hair from Charles Darwin’s beard goes on display
Charles Darwin, the genius Naturalist behind the theory of evolution passed away 200 years ago, but he left us something from his beard “Hair”. When Darwin died two centuries ago, his family collected some pieces of Darwin’s hair and kept for generations in a box as a keep-sake. Now the box has been opened [...]
Astronomers Recieved Images of Newly Discovered Multi-Planet Solar System
During the past 10 years, several planet detection methods were used to discover over 200 exoplanets, but unfortunately all of these techniques have limitations. It didn’t tell scientists any thing about the planet other than its mass and orbit. But for the fist time ever, new images and snap shots received for a multi-plant star [...]
Neuroscientists to help incorporate Nature’s Healing properties into hospital design
A U.S architectural firm based in Ontario California called HMC announced recently plans to work with neuroscientists to examine ways in which natural surroundings and healthy outdoors lighting can be incorporated into the design of hospitals, which ultimately help patients heal faster.
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The World’s First Ovary Transplant Baby
Doctors in from the U.S and British carried out a complex and very challenging surgery where they transplanted an ovary to a 38 year old London woman after suffering from early menopause. The woman is expected to give birth to the word’s first ovary transplant baby next week as the Times Online reported yesterday.
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Genetically Modified Pig Organs for Human Transplant
Many people die daily becuase of liver and heart failure, but a new technology was developed by Lord Robert Winston and his research team where they use pig genetically-modified organs for human transplant. “this new technology could be ready in two or three years”. Winston said.
The team working to develop a new strain of mini-pig [...]
