CHICKEN'S HEART
KEPT ALIVE IN TEST TUBE. A fraigment of a chicken's heart kept alive in a test tube at the Rockefeller Institute, New York, is now 21 years old. Dr. Alexis Carrel, whoi has tended the h'eart since 1912, states that this living organism can be considered immortal, and barring aecidents will live on through future aeons so long as there is a human being remiadning to tend its simple wants. Its cells are nourished and drained aNificially, and its size is kept stationary by cutting excess tissues. ' - This undying heart, however, does not promise immortality for human hodies. Humian hieings, said Dr. Carrel, would h'ave similar potentialities of perpetual existence if it were not for the fact that the only cells which cannot be renewed continuously ara those of the brain and the nerve system. Ironically enough, it is man's hrain which' makes him mortail.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 7
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147CHICKEN'S HEART Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 7
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