Thursday, April 24, 2008
Frankenstein's heart
Scientist have successfully brought back to life the heart of a rat. To do so, they harvested a heart from a dead rat and stripped it of all cells using a soap much like your shampoo. This left behind only the non-living portions of the heart. Next, they reseeded the heart with cells from a newborn rat. They attached it to an electrode to jump start it. Then it happened! The heart began to beat regularly. The scientist next attempted to bring a pig heart back to life because a pig heart is closer in stucture to a human heart. Do you think it will work?
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7 comments:
How long will the pig heart stay alive? We think it will work.
How long will the rat heart stay alive? I think it will not work.
How long will the newborn rats heart stay alive? I think it will work.
We think it will work. The pigs heart will come back to life.
Hi I’m Kain and Frankenstein’s heart sounds really cool. I thought it was cool when you made that dead rat’s heart beat. I think that if you can make a dead rat’s heart beat then you can make a dead pig’s heart beat. Well, good luck Bye.9876jh
Hi, I think that the pig will live again.
Long live rat, Long live man.
By: Michael
Do you think eventually they will try to bring a human back to life? They could use the animal that has the most similar heart to a human to bring them back to life. We heard Dr. Garner studied a miniature and a quarter horse to see which has the most similar heart to a human.
Colton and Jacob
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