Scientists Grow Beating Heart

"We just took nature’s own building blocks to build a new organ" -- Being a Lego guy myself, this makes perfect sense to me. Scientists have basically grown a heart that not only beats but "seem[s] to know how to behave like heart tissue". The source of the article is here: Researchers create beating heart in lab. This is just another ongoing step towards who-knows-what, driven by the natural progression of a species to learn. And, like my earlier post on the grander subject, begs the question: What is nature?

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