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I’ve seen this photograph very frequently on tumblr and Facebook, always with the simple caption, “Ghost Heart”. What exactly is a ghost heart?
More than 3,200 people are on the waiting list for a heart transplant in the United States. Some won’t survive the wait. Last year, 340 died before a new heart was found.
The solution: Take a pig heart, soak it in an ingredient commonly found in shampoo and wash away the cells until you’re left with a protein scaffold that is to a heart what two-by-four framing is to a house.
Then inject that ghost heart, as it’s called, with hundreds of millions of blood or bone-marrow stem cells from a person who needs a heart transplant, place it in a bioreactor - a box with artificial lungs and tubes that pump oxygen and blood into it - and wait as the ghost heart begins to mature into a new, beating human heart.
Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, has been working on this– first using rat hearts, then pig hearts and human hearts - for years.
The process is called decellularization and it is a tissue engineering technique designed to strip out the cells from a donor organ, leaving nothing but connective tissue that used to hold the cells in place.
This scaffold of connective tissue - called a “ghost organ” for its pale and almost translucent appearance - can then be reseeded with a patient’s own cells, with the goal of regenerating an organ that can be transplanted into the patient without fear of tissue rejection.
This ghost heart is ready to be injected with a transplant recipient’s stem cells so a new heart - one that won’t be rejected - can be grown.
(Source)THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL. MAN I LOVE SCIENCE. SO MUCH.
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Ugh, I hate texas heat. It’s too hot.
not today satan
not today
It’s like CPR for toilets
That’s because plungers are used to force water through the pipes and push whatever is clogging it to get unstuck as opposed to pulling whatever clogged it out through suction as many people believe.
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Anonymous asked: Wait Pyrite is shipped with one of Birb's characters?
Yep! Pyrite is shipped with azula-griffon‘s Cherry Sprinkles. They work in the same school and all. Also more of our characters are intertwined because of that school.
Libido wants to bone the principal, our dance teachers are a color changing couple.
Chip? Chip knows Nila. Let that settl with you guys ;)
Hhh yes
Chip needs to stay away from Nila
It’s not her fault she knew him when he wasn’t crazy XD
Now chip and gallows have something in common. They’ve both fucked the douchebug
I NEVER SAID CHIP FUCKED NILA!!
That’d be one hell of a three way though…
Would enis even let gallows or nilla fuck chip?
Oo that’s a good question.dracini?First impressions are everything.
Gallows maybe
Nila, depends on his age/ level of NilanessGood lord no wonder Chip can’t find a ship. Enis is in the way! Good think no ones asked her to prom XD
Enis needs to back off but chip is his baby I mean come on.
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Anonymous asked: Wait Pyrite is shipped with one of Birb's characters?
Yep! Pyrite is shipped with azula-griffon‘s Cherry Sprinkles. They work in the same school and all. Also more of our characters are intertwined because of that school.
Libido wants to bone the principal, our dance teachers are a color changing couple.
Chip? Chip knows Nila. Let that settl with you guys ;)
Hhh yes
Chip needs to stay away from Nila
It’s not her fault she knew him when he wasn’t crazy XD
Now chip and gallows have something in common. They’ve both fucked the douchebug
I NEVER SAID CHIP FUCKED NILA!!
That’d be one hell of a three way though…
Would enis even let gallows or nilla fuck chip?
Anonymous asked: Wait Pyrite is shipped with one of Birb's characters?
Yep! Pyrite is shipped with azula-griffon‘s Cherry Sprinkles. They work in the same school and all. Also more of our characters are intertwined because of that school.
Libido wants to bone the principal, our dance teachers are a color changing couple.
Chip? Chip knows Nila. Let that settl with you guys ;)
Hhh yes
Chip needs to stay away from Nila
It’s not her fault she knew him when he wasn’t crazy XD
was it a public school or private school?
Private school.
Is it highschool or college?
why the fuck does everyone in the purge movies want to kill people if crime was legal i’d find a way to erase my student debt and also probably steal a bunch of new clothes
I would steal the textbooks and maybe a car. Also a shit ton of gas.
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