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UCLA Doctors Remove Man’s Heart, Replace it with Total Artificial Heart

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2012Health, Scienceadvanced technology, ali nsair, artificial heart, backpack, bridge, cardiothoracic surgery, chad washington, defibrillator implanted, diseased heart, donor heart, exercise, freedom portable driver, heart disease, heart transplant program, immunosuppressant medications, living without heart, mario deng, nutrition plan, pacemaker, richard j shemin, syncardia, temporary, temporary pump, tick tock, total artificial heart, transplant surgery, transplantation, ucla

Portable power supply allows patient to go home while he awaits new heart

Imagine living without a heart. It is possible — if you have a new artificial heart pumping blood through your body. You can even go to the supermarket, watch your kid’s soccer game or go on a hike.

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has performed its first procedure to remove a patient’s diseased heart and replace it with a SynCardia Temporary Total Artificial Heart.

Chad Washington, 35, underwent the seven-hour transplant surgery at UCLA on Oct. 29, led by Dr. Murray Kwon, an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery. (more…)

Vision Improves Modestly in Patients after Human Embryonic Stem Cells Transplants

By Guest PostJanuary 24, 2012Health, Scienceblind patients, central visual rescue, clinical trials, Europe, eye diseases, eyes, human embryonic stem cells, immunosuppression therapy, lancet, macular degeneration, photoreceptor, retinal cells, retinal pigment epithelial, rpe, stargardts macular dystrophy, stem cells, steven schwartz, therapeutic use, transplantation, united states, vision

Researchers at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute and colleagues who successfully transplanted specialized retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into the eyes of two legally blind patients report that the transplants appear safe and that both patients have experienced modest improvement in their vision.

The preliminary findings, published online Jan. 23 in the journal The Lancet, represent a milestone in the therapeutic use of stem cells and may pave the way for a new therapy to treat eye diseases, the researchers said. Because this is the first time physicians have applied the power of regenerative medicine to eye disease, the clinical trials are being watched closely by scientists, stem-cell therapy advocates and the public. (more…)

Coral Transplantation the Simple and Cheap Solution to Reef Restoration

By Guest PostJune 11, 2010Environment. elkhorn coral, british virgin islands, coral, gardening analogy, graham forrester, great barrier reef, gulf of mexico, orchard, reef restoration, restoration ecology, transplantation, university of rhode island, white bay

It is a question asked by marine scientists from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Barrier Reef; how best to restore coral reefs and marine habitat once it has been damaged or even killed?

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UCLA Doctors Remove Man’s Heart, Replace it with Total Artificial Heart

Vision Improves Modestly in Patients after Human Embryonic Stem Cells Transplants

Coral Transplantation the Simple and Cheap Solution to Reef Restoration