One prediction from models of a chaotically beating heart is the break-up of regular electrical impulses into spirals, causing uneven contractions.

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In a notable success, Asashima created a test-tube heart - and kept it beating for one month.

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One possible explanation, the researchers write, is that machines keeping the heart beating are being removed earlier, which would turn a potential brain death donation into a "less desirable" cardiac death donation.

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Taylor acknowledges that they have not yet implanted one of these beating hearts into a rat and tried to keep it alive by using the new heart.

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Indeed, the film reveals its beating feminist heart in the portrayal of the choices, and compromises (except on one crucial point related to marriage), and alliances that Merida must make to save her family.

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