Heart in a Box: UCLA patient's life-saving donor heart arrives 'warm and beating' inside box

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[xmnemonic]

Holy shit. We are in the future.

[Dewkeeper]

This is several kinds of incredible.

[Zora Monsterchen]

Cancer is triggered by a lot of factors and different Viruses. So you'd need a special cure for every cancer. Even chemotherapies today are quite specific to the patient. So there is no "one" cure. Also cancer cells don't differ chemicly too much from normal cells. So most medications don't only attack the cancer cells, but the normal ones too. You can kill every cancer - but sometimes that kills the patient too is a sad saying today.

[DrBromethius]

You in the past son! Your was posted a year ago! damn, here in 2013 we got CISPA passed n stuff, its a really good advancement in technology.

[karamvir kambu]

doctor is god

[Tima Akunbekov]

Amazing doctors. They are magicians in their nature, treating patients with patience. Every men's life brought back to life is valuable as well as priceless!!!

[MrSurvival2]

After seeing this, I find it interesting how we can't cure cancer yet we can exchange hearts in a person's body from across the globe in under a day. I feel like someone has created the cure but is keeping it secret for the benefit of hospitals and doctors paychecks. Family Guy had an episode on this once. It was an episode called: The Old Man and the Big 'C'

[tromboneandfalcons]

Seeing that heart beat in the box without the body is mindblowing.

[jordon choudhary]

thanx

[Elround4]

Cool. Once tissue engineering gets advanced enough, this thing could be used to hold a living and beating 3D printed heart. See this youtube TEDtalks video for tissue engineering's current state: /watch?v=9RMx31GnNXY

Gotta love science, technology, medicine, and the science fiction authors that put these kind of things into peoples dreams for tomorrow. ^^

[Elround4]

Hopefully the next future will have spacefaring body switching brain backed up (with information theoretic death as the official definition for clinical death) immortals. Like in the novel Altered Carbon, in the video game EVE Online, and in the scifi pen and paper rpg Eclipse Phase. ; )

[Michael Arnett]

What the heck is this! This is so awesome. It is just so freaking awesome!