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Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston have engineered working kidneys for rats with the goal of
eventually creating made-to-order human kidneys for transplant.
From the abstract
in Nature Medicine:
Approximately 100,000...Show More Summary
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This is a huge step toward growing and transplanting replacement organs. In the latest work, Harald Ott of Massachusetts General hospital led a team of scientists who grew a kidney by using an experimental technique that has previously been used to create working hearts, lungs and livers. Ott first took a rat kidney and stripped [...]
Bioengineered rat kidneys developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. In their report, receiving advance...Show More Summary
Sure, he looks like he should be at the center of an involved murder mystery on General Hospital, but Dr. Neal ElAttrache spent a good chunk of his Saturday operating on both Zack Greinke's collarbone and Kobe Bryant's achilles. Both surgeries were completed without incident, if you couldn't tell just by looking at him. Read more...
Nastiest Dust-Up: Three REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY cast members are facing charges following a melee that took place during the opening of a shop owned by a fourth. Proving sometimes, everybody’s in the wrong, the fight allegedly began after a party guest mocked the autism-afflicted son of housewife Jacqueline Laurita and her spouse, Christopher.Read More
The week's soap opera ratings.
Table for three? Right this way! ABC has announced that ousted General Hospital stars Michael Easton, Roger Howarth and Kristen Alderson, who left the soap several weeks ago due that contract mess with Prospect Park, will all return on May 10. Show More Summary
Well that’s that! Though One Life To Live found new life online, three of its popular stars won’t be sticking
Riff Raff will be infringing upon James Franco's territory with a hyped-up guest spot on a daytime soap. Just like Franco's stint on General Hospital, Riff Raff will be guest starring on One Life to Live playing a Miami art dealer named, wait for it: Jamie Franko. Read more...
2009: James Franco portrays a nefarious art dealer on General Hospital named “Franco” as some kind of performance art. 2010: James Franco returns to General Hospital, so is just straight up a soap opera star now? 2012: It is reported that soap opera star James Franco will appear in a Harmony Korine movie called Spring [...]
A driver in a pickp-up truck barreling through a crosswalk killed an unidentified woman in her 50s this morning. The accident occurred at Judson Avenue and Edna Street. She was later pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital. [ more › ]
Posting Double-Digit Year-to-Year Increases Across Key Demos
Daddy's back! In the stunning cliffhanger of Wednesday's episode of ABC's "General Hospital" it was revealed that [SPOILER] didn't die when he went down that...
Daddy's back! In the stunning cliffhanger of Wednesday's episode of ABC's General Hospital it was revealed that Stavros Cassadine — the heartthrob baddie played by Robert Kelker Kelly — didn't die when he went down that bottomless pit back in 2001. Show More Summary
Daytime television's most famous couple of all time, Luke and Laura Spencer, are back in action on ABC's General Hospital, and the actors who have brought them to life for the past 35 years will reunite live on stage this Friday in Beverly...Show More Summary
The week's soap opera ratings.
BJ's tragic death and heart transplant. Tracy Quartermaine looking on coldly as her father Edward appeared to suffer a heart attack. Sonny Corinthis watching in horror as his wife Lily was blown to bits in a mob hit. Single father Dr. Show More Summary
SOAPnet will air 50 hours of classic episodes this weekend.