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The exquisite machine : the new science of the heart / Sian E. Harding.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2022Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262548410
  • 9780262548410
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Threats to the heart: a thousand natural shocks -- The science of the really small -- Big data-- many hearts that beat as one? -- The plastic heart -- The responsive heart-- emotion in motion -- Can you (not) die of a broken heart? -- The gendered heart -- The mechanical heart -- Can stem cells help us grow a new heart? -- When will the future be here?
Summary: "How the new science of the heart is using biology, engineering, and mathematics to help prevent and cure heart disease"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction New 616.12 H263 Available 33111011112857
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 616.12 H263 Available 33111011242175
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

How science is opening up the mysteries of the heart, revealing the poetry in motion within the machine.

Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day-if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decades of effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart's perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite Machine , new scientific developments are opening up the mysteries of the heart. And this explosion of new science-ultrafast imaging, gene editing, stem cells, artificial intelligence, and advanced sub-light microscopy-has crucial, real-world consequences for health and well-being.

Harding-a world leader in cardiac research-explores the relation between the emotions and heart function, reporting that the heart not only responds to our emotions, it creates them as well. The condition known as Broken Heart Syndrome, for example, is a real disorder than can follow bereavement or stress. The Exquisite Machine describes the evolutionary forces that have shaped the heart's response to damage, the astonishing rejuvenating power of stem cells, how we can avoid heart disease, and why it can be so hard to repair a damaged heart. It tells the stories of patients who have had the devastating experiences of a heart attack, chaotic heart rhythms, or stress-induced acute heart failure. And it describes how cutting-edge technologies are enabling experiments and clinical trials that will lead us to new solutions to the worldwide scourge of heart disease.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Threats to the heart: a thousand natural shocks -- The science of the really small -- Big data-- many hearts that beat as one? -- The plastic heart -- The responsive heart-- emotion in motion -- Can you (not) die of a broken heart? -- The gendered heart -- The mechanical heart -- Can stem cells help us grow a new heart? -- When will the future be here?

"How the new science of the heart is using biology, engineering, and mathematics to help prevent and cure heart disease"-- Provided by publisher.

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