Heart Valves Grown From Womb Fluid Cells

Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb — offering a revolutionary approach that may be used to repair defective hearts in the future.

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Longevity Coatings is applying a special tungsten carbide/cobalt coating to valves manufactured by Gemco Valve Co. of New Jersey-- valves which are to be used by NASA as part of a project to extract oxygen from moon ash.

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This is the first known photograph of the great grandfather of modern digital computers - a room sized, one ton jumble of wiring, valves and racks that was 640 million times less powerful than its descendant, the pocket-sized iPod.

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