So, when I wrote about knitting, I got lots of visits from “ravelry.com”, which appears to be an online community of knitters and crocheters. This group easily doubled the number of visits I was getting (but they did not tend to leave comments!) So the experiment–knitters like poems about knitting… do car people like poems …
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Jan 17 2008
Matters Of The Heart (… in a jar)
anatomy, experiment, heart in a jar, Love, medicine, news, Science, social commentary
by Cuttlefish
It’s all over the news–researchers at the University of Minnesota have “created a beating heart in the laboratory“. Basically, they used the protein fiber matrix from one heart, stripped of muscle cells, as a scaffold upon which to grow a new heart, using a solution of cells from another rat. Yeah. I know, all this …
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