Something Strange Happens When an Old Heart Is Transplanted Into a Young Body
Harvard medical researchers have discovered that donor hearts decades older or younger than their recipients start to look and act more like the new body they call home.
Via Gizmodo
Hundreds of people die each year while waiting for the right organ to perform a high-stakes transplant surgery. It’s the kind of resource scarcity that has led to some daring alternatives, including artificial hearts and animal-to-human “xenotransplant” experiments. But, if those two options leave you a little squeamish, how would you feel about receiving a replacement human heart with a bit of an age gap?
Long story short, it might work out surprisingly well. Harvard biochemical researcher Jesse Poganik and…
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