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Newborn Hearts Can Literally Heal Themselves

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers in the United States were able to demonstrate that the heart of newborn mammals is capable of healing itself even after suffering moderate to large damage. In the experiments, which were conducted on unsuspecting lab mice, the researchers extirpated a portion of an animal�...

28 February 2011
11:03 GMT

Space Technology Used in New Heart Monitor

A group of scientists has developed a new device for the iPhone, which can be used to keep track of your heart beats while on the go. The sounds are sent through headphones, so you can listen to the heart like you are listening to music. The system is rather basic, but it allows for accurate monitoring, which could p...

26 October 2010
03:37 GMT

Laser Pulses Can Control the Heart

Scientists recently managed an impressive achievement in the field of bioengineering, when they managed to control an embryonic heart using nothing more than laser light for the first time ever.The group controlled the pace of the heart, which means that creating new generations of pacemakers could soon become possib...

16 August 2010
05:05 GMT

New Insight into How Early Human Embryos Developed

The human heart is a mystery from many points of view. It produces a complex electrical field all on its own, and is the only muscle in the body that never takes a break from its chores. It comprises an intricate web of various types of cells, which all work together to keep the heart beating. Scientists have for man...

30 July 2010
06:33 GMT

Some Sauropods Kept Their Heads Held High

For many years, scientists have been debating within the international community as to whether the largest animals to have ever lived on land kept their heads held high or not. Sauropods were a special type of dinosaurs, a group that included Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and Apatosaurus. These enormous creatures were o...

2 June 2010
05:29 GMT

New Technique Can Image the Fetus Heart

A collaboration of investigators from the United States announces a major breakthrough in imaging technologies used for a variety of medical applications. The group learned how to use optical-coherence tomography (OCT) to image the heart of fetuses inside their mothers' wombs, even before the small organs begin ...

2 April 2010
06:46 GMT

New Electronics to Fight Off Arrhythmia

A collaboration of universities in the United States has recently produced a new type of silicon-based, biocompatible devices that could in the near future combat the effects of arrhythmia. This is a condition of the heart that makes the organ skip a beat from time to time, or simply move irregularly. The new instrum...

25 March 2010
17:01 GMT

Giraffes Make Use of Supercharged Hearts

Although they look stunningly beautiful, with their long necks stretching over the top of trees, giraffes also posed a difficult challenge for evolution, in terms of making them capable of surviving. What is beautiful about them – the long and thin neck – also comes with a disadvantage, and namely the fac...

21 November 2009
05:05 GMT

Study Shows Heart Grows New Cells

Conventional medical knowledge held that while the skin and the bones could heal once they got damaged, some organs such as the heart and the brain could not. It also pinpointed that cells inside the heart and the brain did not regenerate throughout a person's life, and that those who were destroyed never got re...

3 April 2009
03:40 GMT

Vexx - Gameplay Hints (PS2)

Vexx is a 3D adventure-platformer, in which the player must overcome a variety of obstacles, puzzles and enemies in order to collect a number of Wraith hearts, which allow the player to unlock new locations. There are a total of 81 hearts in the game, but only 60 are required to beat the game. The game uses a combo-b...

5 July 2007
11:09 GMT

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Cheats and Secrets (GameBoy Advance)

All the worlds in Chain of Memories (with the exception of Twilight Town) are the same worlds contained in the first Kingdom Hearts, except for the "Deep Jungle" world. However, the plotlines slightly differ from those in the original game, and generally revolve around the themes of memory and feelings. The story of ...

3 April 2007
04:02 GMT

Kingdom Hearts II

Just seeing the Square-Enix logo on a game's cover is enough to make a die-hard Final Fantasy fan like myself go berserk. Is it truly a spin-off from the greatest series of RPGs ever created? Well, the answer is "kind of...". Disney and Square-Enix created the project called "Kingdom Hearts" and the game has alr...

9 March 2007
10:05 GMT


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