http://freeryan.com/tags/heart The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://freeryan.com/ScientistsGrowBeatingHeart <p><span class="inline inline-right"><img src="http://freeryan.com/files/freeryan/images/heart.gif" alt="" title="" class="image image-normal" width="90" height="114" /></span>"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: <a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/researchers-create-beating-heart-lab-15218.html">Researchers create beating heart in lab</a>. This is just another ongoing step towards who-knows-what, driven by the natural progression of a species to learn. And, like my <a href="WhatisNature">earlier post</a> on the grander subject, begs the question: What is nature?</p> <div class="image-clear"></div> http://freeryan.com/ScientistsGrowBeatingHeart#comments heart nature science http://freeryan.com/crss/node/60 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:50:24 -0700 ryan 60 at http://freeryan.com