Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume VI, Number 9, 29 June 1933 — HEART BEATS 21 YEARS IN LAB. TEST TUBE [ARTICLE]

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HEART BEATS 21 YEARS IN LAB. TEST TUBE

Twenty-one years ago Dr. Alexis Carrel cut a fragment. from the heart of a ehieken embryo apd placed it iu a test tube at the Rockerfeller īnstitute in Nfew York where it has been kept a!ive ever since. ConttmiaiUy nourished and drained artificuilly, the iriereas!ng bulk of the heart is kept Withln bounds by cutt'.ng sway the exeessĪYe tissue.