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What next? Today a blastocyst is created for harvesting. Tomorrow, researchers may find that a five-month-old fetus with a discernible human appearance, suspended in an artificial placenta, may be the source of even more promising body parts. At what point do we draw the line?
The expectations surrounding most internships far exceed the actual career exposure they provide to students. Most employers hire interns as an act of charity, because there is nothing interns are actually qualified to do. But somehow the artificial programs and piles of make-work are supposed to give us glimpses...
So why isn?t it? My understanding is that while the agency has spent a lot of money, ostensibly on updating their systems, a lot of it has gone to things like artificial intelligence - cool stuff that doesn?t help organize anything.
Meanwhile, doctors have had growing success with a different kind of mechanical pump, called a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), that is also implanted in the body but helps boost the heart's output without replacing the organ. In some cases the ailing heart gets enough rest on the LVAD...
Does that mean we should forget about total artificial hearts like Abiomed's? Not at all. There will always be some folks whose hearts are so worn out they cannot be salvaged. A review panel convened by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute in 1999 estimated that between 5...