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Fantastic Voyage Into the Heart

Posted by Zonk on from the rat-superheroes-expected-soon dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), researchers from the Harvard Medical School have written a sequel to 'Fantastic voyage,' the 1966 sci-fi movie. By injecting self-assembling peptide nanofibers loaded with pro-survival factors into rats, they've showed that the animals could be protected from heart failures. So far, the researchers have not extended their experiments to humans."

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  1. Sequel by Have+Blue · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There was already a sequel to Fantastic Voyage. It was a novel called Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain, and it was written by Isaac Asimov just like the novel the first movie was based on.

  2. Quick recap in english by Tmack · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Buncha medical terms... something about cells and heart tissue not dieing as much after injecting stuff into them... a few pictures with more medical jargon descriptions saying something about why and how the pictures are different, tho they look the same to me... and be sure to look at more pretty pictures here: URL

    Yeh, thats about it. Summary was a copy of the first paragraph, and is about as far as you can go and still make sense of it without a med degree...

    tm

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