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That's not quite what's happening in Roger Pedersen's lab at the University of California in San Francisco--at least not yet. But he has managed to turn a group of carefully tended progenitor cells into a patch of thriving, beating cardiac muscle. "It's amazing," Pedersen says, "when you put unspecialized cells away, come back after the weekend and there's a clump of heartlike cells beating before your eyes in a dish...
DIED. JAMES VORENBERG, 72, former Harvard Law School dean and a key deputy to Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, whose organizational efforts helped the office survive President Nixon's ouster of Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre; of cardiac arrest; in Boston...
James Vorenberg '48, a former dean of the Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former Watergate associate special prosecutor, died on Wednesday of cardiac arrest...
...purpose of this research is not to take elite athletes to a new level," says physiologist Lee Sweeney, leader of the Pennsylvania team, "but to help them come back from injury faster." Nonetheless, similar techniques could theoretically be used for mitochondrial and cardiac redesign...
...clear, as Herrington says, that "the whole relationship between estrogen and heart disease is more complex than we thought." The latest studies indicate that the hormone appears to increase some women's chances of heart problems in the first year after they begin taking it. Any positive cardiac benefits become apparent only after three years of therapy. So if you have never taken estrogen and suffer a heart attack, you probably shouldn't start using the drug. But if you have been on estrogen for several years and then have a heart attack, continuing to take estrogen shouldn't hurt...