Broken pieces of the brain, heart or liver could be replaced--repairing damage done by accidents or illness.
In humans they sit on nerve cells throughout the body--in the brain, heart and stomach and on skeletal muscle.
Anesthesiologists paralyze patients undergoing sensitive surgeries on the spine, brain or heart by bathing cellular receptors with strong muscle relaxants.
If a person with anorexia becomes severely malnourished, every organ in the body can be damaged, including the brain, heart and kidneys.
There are also ideas around using the technology to slowly release drugs inside the body or to build sensors for the brain and heart.
The next step is simple, but perhaps hard on the brain and heart-compare what you actually do with what you actually want and examine the differences.
It uses metal spaghetti tongs in place of the tweezers in the original and players can try to use them to remove the mannequin's brain, heart, gut or femur.
The cloned cells would be genetically identical to the patient's own, so they could replace part of an ailing brain or heart without touching off a full-scale attack from the patient's immune system.
Your brain and heart will wake right up.
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In a person whose heart is intact, "the brain will tell the heart, 'Let's go, start exercising, let's start beating faster, ' " Kobashigawa said.
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In lupus the body's immune system turns on itself and produces "autoantibodies" that attack the joints, skin, kidneys, heart and brain.
Self-adhesive electronics devices thinner than the diameter of a human hair can monitor the human heart, brain waves and muscle activity.
If left untreated, kidney damage can worsen and turn into kidney failure, which can have serious affects on the heart, brain, and bones.
For sensitive operations like spine, heart or brain surgery, doctors don't just put patients to sleep, they temporarily paralyze them with powerful muscle relaxants.
The modest lobby opens up into a pristine production lab filled with skilled glassblowers, blue-flaming torches and dazzling glass models of the human heart, brain and vascular system.
Then the team built out the rest of the brain and added a heart, veins, lungs and vascular components for the arms and legs -- all created by glassblowing.
However, expert witness Dr Jean Keeling told the hearing on Wednesday that damage to the baby's heart, brain and lungs was evidence of a lack of oxygen caused by interference with his breathing.
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In addition, you may want to consider adding fatty fish such as salmon at least once a week to ensure that you are getting plenty of omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for both heart and brain health.
This chemical cascade, called the Wnt pathway, is turned on when organisms are injured, and it could in theory be used to make stem cells that are already present in the heart, brain and other organs regenerate damaged tissue.
The science is increasingly clear: Older adults need both strength training, to help replenish and maintain the muscle mass and (for women especially) the bone density our bodies lose each year as we age, and cardio to help guard against the risks of clogged arteries in the heart and brain.
Potential side effects can include fits, memory loss, potentially fatal heart problems and brain damage.
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It is the most abundant peptide in our brain, affecting everything from heart function to sodium balance.
This included shortened arms and legs, blindness, deafness, heart problems and brain damage.
The big worry in sudden cardiac arrest beyond restarting the heart is protecting the brain.
The drink has already been found to help prevent cancer, protect against heart problems and improve brain function.
The disease affects many parts of the body including the joints, the skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, and the brain.
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Most organs are donated from a patient who has been declared brain stem dead, but whose heart is still beating.
They're audaciously, passionately artificial and at the same time unabashedly romantic -- post-modern pop medleys aimed at the heart, not the brain.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
So I tried out this one game down at the naval research lab in Washington, and they hooked me up to a heart monitor and a brain monitor.
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