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Lab-grown ‘ghost hearts’ work to solve organ transplant shortage by combining a cleaned-out pig heart with a patient’s own stem cells

A ‘ghost heart’ is a pig’s heart prepared so that it can be transplanted into people. Provided by Doris Taylor Doris Taylor, University of New Hampshire Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 17.9 million people lose their lives to it each year, accounting for 32% of […]



Supporting Geeks are Sexy: A MASSIVE Thank You! (And a Message to Ad Blocking Readers)

Dear nerdies and gentlegeeks, A massive thank you to all those who donated last week after reading our post asking for help. My ultimate goal this year for Geeks are Sexy is to cut down on ads, removing some of the most annoying ones from the site. Thanks to Patreon, we might eventually be able […]

Looking back toward cosmic dawn − astronomers confirm the faintest galaxy ever seen

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing can help astronomers observe faint, hard-to-see galaxies. NASA/STScI Guido Roberts-Borsani, University of California, Los Angeles The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear, dark backdrop. But this wasn’t always the case – in its early years, the universe […]