“Fans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years,” reports the BBC. “It is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years.” The Guardian reports: The performance of the composition began in September 2001 at the St Burchardi church in the eastern town…
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Landmark transplant in 1960s Virginia performed with heart stolen from a Black man
A groundbreaking heart transplant in Virginia in 1968, one of the first in the world, was performed using the heart of a Black patient that was taken without his family’s knowledge. Source: https://www.livescience.com/the-organ-thieves-historic-heart-transplant.html
Book excerpt: ‘The Organ Thieves’ (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
White surgeons racing to perform a pioneering transplant in 1968 took a Black patient’s heart — but didn’t tell his family. Source: https://www.livescience.com/the-organ-thieves-book-excerpt.html
Does coronavirus linger in the body?
Some viruses can hide out in the body and reemerge at later times. Which viruses do this, and can the new coronavirus do this too? Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/does-coronavirus-linger-in-body-immune-system-covid…
What happens to your body when you’re an organ donor?
With organ donation, the death of one person can lead to the survival of many others. But when a donor dies, how do doctors save their organs for transplantation? Source: https://www.livescience.com/what-happens-to-organ-donor-body.html
Turning the spleen into a liver saves mice from fatal organ damage
The spleens of live mice can be transformed into liver-like organs as a treatment for severe liver damage that could one day replace transplants in humans Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245733-turning-the-spleen-into-a-liver-saves-mice-from-fatal-organ-damage/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Slimming down fatty livers in the lab could boost donor organ supply
Donor livers are increasingly not being used for transplants because they have too much fat. Hooking them up to a machine for a crash treatment could solve that Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236649-slimming-down-fatty-livers-in-the-lab-could-boost-donor-organ-supply/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Twitter Ran Ads For Human Organs Because Money Is Money
Earlier this week, freelance journalist Tyler Coats had an organ-buying service appear on his feed in the form of a promoted tweet. Gizmodo has the details: The fact that this cropped up in front of his face to begin with is indicative of how badly these ads are targeted in the first place. “Despite my cold, dead heart, I am not…
A woman with half a brain offers more proof of the organ’s superpowers
From a teenager excelling with half a brain to the organ’s visual areas being co-opted in people who are blind, our brain’s ability to adapt continues to amaze Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532693-800-a-woman-with-half-a-brain-offers-more-proof-of-the-organs-superpowers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For the First Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: On Monday, researchers from Japan’s Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant. Rather than replacing their patient’s entire heart with a new organ, these researchers placed degradable sheets containing heart muscle cells onto the heart’s damaged areas — and if the procedure has the desired effect, it could eventually…