Hearts

Zebrafish are marvelous creatures. Not only are they completely see-through, but they can also grow new organs. We already knew these translucent little fish could regenerate retinal tissue in their eyes – now new research shows how zebrafish can revive heart tissue after injury.  "We wanted to find out how this little fish does that, and if we could learn from it," says developmental biologist and study author Jan Philipp Junker of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology in Germany.Published in Nature Genetics,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment. These challenges may not always come to mind when people think about how to…

Warner Bros. In case the July heat was not enough, Channing Tatum has started teasing some very hot scenes from the much anticipated third and apparently final installment in the Magic Mike series, Magic Mike‘s Last Dance. Someone, please crank up the AC! In an interview with ET, Tatum revealed the third Magic Mike movie will be coming through with an unprecedented and especially steamy scene, that had yet to happen in the trilogy. “You’ve seen me dance onstage, but you’ve never seen me give an intimate,…

As men get older, they don’t just lose their hair, muscle tone, and knee cartilage. They also start to lose Y chromosomes from their cells. Scientists have linked this vanishing to a long list of diseases and a higher risk of death, but the evidence has been circumstantial. Now, researchers report that when they removed the Y chromosome from male mice, the animals died earlier than their Y-carrying counterparts, likely because their hearts became stiffer. “This is the best…

Earlier this summer, physicians at NYU Langone were able to successfully transplant pig hearts into two recently-deceased humans. The medical team performed the procedures on June 16 and July 6, using special pig hearts that were genetically modified to be more acceptable for transplantation into a human body. Both the bodies were donated by recently deceased individuals and were placed on ventilator support so the efficacy of the pig hearts could be measured more accurately. The study arrives as the field of…

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.The experiments announced Tuesday come after a historic but failed attempt earlier this year to use a pig's heart to save a dying Maryland man — sort of a rehearsal before scientists try again in the living.Among the lessons: Practice with the deceased is important.“We learned so much from the first one that the second one is…

Researchers successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two recently deceased people connected to ventilators, the New York University team announced today. The surgeries are the latest step forward in the field of animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, which has seen a flurry of successes so far this year — raising hopes for a new, steady supply of organs to ease shortages. The only thing different about these heart transplants from a normal human-to-human heart transplant was the…

Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Nickelodeon Jordan Fisher is not just the leading man in the upcoming Netflix rom-com Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In-Between — he’s the leading voice. Entertainment Weekly debuted the new music video for “Everything I Ever Wanted” and a chat with Fisher about the upcoming romantic comedy and its instant appeal.  Inspired by a novel of the same name, Fisher was contacted by the creative team at ACE with the idea of a role in Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In-Between. He…

It is variously described as a snake, a zip, a ribbon, a scar, a Welsh version of Route 66. Memories, myths and moments of love and grief are woven into a collection of poems celebrating an unusual subject – the A470 road that links north and south Wales.Though the subject matter may seem unpromising, the collection A470: Poems for the Road / Cerddi’r Ffordd, has proved popular with critics and readers and has already been reprinted twice since it was launched on St David’s Day in March.Sian Northey, who co-edited the…

It’s based on the Dissidia Final Fantasy NT model A Kingdom Hearts Cloud mod that brings the KH aesthetic into Final Fantasy VII Remake is something I always needed — and only just got. I mean, it only makes sense with Nomura connected to both! Crafted by ColossalCake (great name, I could use a colossal cake this weekend) and housed on NexusMods, the Kingdom Hearts Cloud mod is simple and breezy, and swaps the core character model of Cloud for the one featured in Kingdom Hearts. That includes his memorable little…