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...with Harvard's Joseph Vacanti, Langer is using tailor-made polymers to build tiny scaffolds that can then be seeded with skin, cartilage, liver or other cells. The idea is to provide a temporary structure that cells can colonize and upon which they can eventually grow into a functioning organ--at which point the scaffold dissolves away. Langer foresees the day when scientists will be able to grow a new liver or pancreas for patients waiting for scarce donor organs. Skin grown using Langer's principles has been approved by the FDA, and cartilage for rib cages is in clinical...
...great period of Atlantic concluded in the mid-?60s, after Charles and Darin and Leiber and Stoller left the label. I acknowledge that later ?60s Atlantic music can get to me: I still do choke up at the church-organ screaming solemnity of "When a Man Loves a Woman." I have a sneaking fondness for early BeeGees, and not only sneaking: that first album has a half-dozen Beatles-worthy tunes on it, and "To Love Somebody" has stood the test of time as a magnificent Australo-American R&B wailer. But the late ?60s can?t compete...
Meanwhile, doctors have had growing success with a different kind of mechanical pump, called a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), that is also implanted in the body but helps boost the heart's output without replacing the organ. In some cases the ailing heart gets enough rest on the LVAD that it no longer needs artificial support. Researchers are trying to figure out if they can nudge that process along, perhaps by using stem cells to stimulate healing...
...often without realizing it. This is particularly common among patients like Cheney, whose "ejection fraction," a measure of how efficiently the heart is pumping, is around 40%. Usually the problem occurs because some scar tissue in the heart muscle starts to interfere with the electrical signals that cause the organ to beat...
...With a personal fortune estimated at around $119 million, Ehrmann owns about 1,500 pieces of art. He has contributed $12 million toward building a contemporary art museum in Lyons, which will open in early 2003. Called L'Organe (after the medical term organ), it aims to be the first to make the Internet an organic part of a museum from the very beginning. Says Ehrmann, "Art belongs to all humanity...