[HSF] First bioartificial heart may signal end of organ shortage

[Tea Acuff]

It was my wife who found it on a conservative blog. It was picked up by CNN today. My wife reads the HSF so that you Aussies will not know more about what I am thinking than she does.  The only anachronism in your senario is the newspaper. It was Minnesota, not Massachuetts, another geographical detail. The driver is the E3, the Electronic English Empire. Think about that one. One has to carry many metaphors if reality is to have any sense. Concrete thinking perishes into dust.

Assuming that we can get not only a living but a functional heart in the next decade, I have another "backward" thought. Will we specialists make the heart on site to order as in the old days or will other specialists make hundreds of thousands of them off site by custom order? How the world is ordered (arranged, not directed which shows some of my bias) makes a huge difference, no matter from which direction or from where one is looking.

tea


----- Original Message ----
From: Donald Ross <donross at bigpond.com>
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:23:59 AM
Subject: Re: [HSF] First bioartificial heart may signal end of organ shortage

tea,
How come you had to read a British newspaper to find out what is  
happening in Massachusetts?
Don
On 14/01/2008, at 10:55 AM, Tea Acuff wrote:

> I thought the HSF might find this interesting. This pictures are  
> certainly cool. This matrix is the same concept of the Cormatrix  
> patch that I have mentioned to replace tissue (perhaps at SVR).
>
> This technique highlights another backward way of thinking. We  
> shouldn't take new or stem cells to the old heart, we should  
> attract the body's own cells to the matrix (in this case ex vivo)
>
> It also illustrates one of the things that I think should be  
> different about how we go about thinking. We will not get our best  
> ideas, or perhaps even evidence from our stolid journals that the  
> risk adverse read, but by finding ideas from every where (they  
> seldom fall from the sky or on top of the mountain) and  
> "rethinking" them in our space for our concerns.
>
> http://vezoa.notlong.com
> Password: bjn-kdkf
>
>
> tea
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