Oct 19, 2022 12:12 AM
Livers can stay alive and functional for over 100 years across multiple donors and recipients
https://www.zmescience.com/science/liver...ant-94625/
INTRO: A research team composed of members from the University of Texas (UT) and TransMedics, Massachusetts reports that a human liver can stay functional for over 100 years. The results are based on a (still small, but growing) subset of livers that have been transplanted once or several times for a cumulative age of over 100 years across their patients. The team studied these particular livers to determine why they are so resilient, and explain that their results potentially open the way to allow older individuals to act as liver donors... (MORE - details)
Why are we getting fatter?
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/1...atter.html
INTRO (Sabine Hossenfelder): Today I want to talk about personal energy storage. I don’t mean that drawer we all have that’s full of batteries in the wrong size, I mean our expanding waistlines that store energy in form of fat. What are the main causes of obesity, how much of a problem is it, and what are you to make of the recent claims that obesity is caused by plastic? That’s what we’ll talk about today... (MORE - enhanced transcript)
https://youtu.be/tNprlmRT1RU
Oct 15, 2022 - Why are we getting fatter?
https://www.zmescience.com/science/liver...ant-94625/
INTRO: A research team composed of members from the University of Texas (UT) and TransMedics, Massachusetts reports that a human liver can stay functional for over 100 years. The results are based on a (still small, but growing) subset of livers that have been transplanted once or several times for a cumulative age of over 100 years across their patients. The team studied these particular livers to determine why they are so resilient, and explain that their results potentially open the way to allow older individuals to act as liver donors... (MORE - details)
Why are we getting fatter?
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/1...atter.html
INTRO (Sabine Hossenfelder): Today I want to talk about personal energy storage. I don’t mean that drawer we all have that’s full of batteries in the wrong size, I mean our expanding waistlines that store energy in form of fat. What are the main causes of obesity, how much of a problem is it, and what are you to make of the recent claims that obesity is caused by plastic? That’s what we’ll talk about today... (MORE - enhanced transcript)
https://youtu.be/tNprlmRT1RU
Oct 15, 2022 - Why are we getting fatter?