Much like our own Black Heart, but probably much gorier — Saw in 3D. Eccch. {via Street Anatomy}
Archive for the ‘Newsy Guts’ Category
Bloody Hell
Posted: Thursday, August 19th, 2010Jelly Brains
Posted: Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Just when you thought you couldn’t take another earnest medical drama, along comes Adult Swim’s new series “Children’s Hospital,” a fabulously demented and sick (in a good way) parody of the doctor drama genre. Don’t let the blood-stained scrubs on that clown and Henry Winkler cameo fool you — it’s not kid-friendly.
Print Me a Liver
Posted: Monday, August 9th, 2010
So they can print blood vessels now — but how about hearts? It could be coming sooner than you think. Wired magazine has a great photo essay covering company Organo’s fascinating bioprinting business. The printed veins will soon undergo testing in animals, and later, clinical trials in humans. Amazing stuff! Photo by Dave Bullock/Wired.com.
Comic Con Scene
Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Some photographic highlights from Comic Con: As you may or may not know, San Diego Comic Con International is something like a geek Halloween, where everyone dresses up as their favorite characters. We loved this cute manga-esque nurse with pink hair (we forget the name of the actual character — anyone?); a dude dressed up as a Transformer by scrawling “Optimus Prime” on a box and tossing it onto his body; and this scary doctor figure who threatened to tear our hearts out (also not sure who this character is…).
Also on hand at the Con were lots and lots of cute things, like these new plushes from So So Happy; my baby daughter sleeping atop the I Heart Guts t-shirt table, (okay, I am a little biased, of course, about her cuteness), who was a real trooper in the booth; and of course the colorful Ugly Dolls booth!
And of course there were guts! The DKE Toys booth showed off prototypes of our new Huge Heart (see the liver next to it to see the scale), I met the pimpingest Darth Vader and Boba Fett ever, and there’s our display of plushes on the right. I was lucky enough to have help in the booth from some of my dearest friends, Shelayna, Chuva and Pollyanna, so we had a grand ol’ time talking to people, selling guts, and handing around the baby. The Chronicle Books booth honored our Spill Your Guts journal and mix and match stationery set by placing it between their awesome unicorn journal and Porn for Women. We were also flattered to be called “the coolest booth at Comic Con” by G4 TVs Alison Haislip. Yay!
Lungs at Work
Posted: Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Thousands of hearts and minds — and lungs — will be won at the U.S. Transplant Games, which begin tomorrow in Madison, Wisconsin. The games were started by the National Kidney Foundation, but double-lung transplant, bone marrow and heart recipients will compete in sports ranging from badminton to basketball to track and field. More from the Washington Post. {photo Nhat V. Meyer/San Jose Mercury News}
Like a Lady
Posted: Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Here’s two things men don’t need — a machine that helps them menstruate and a foot nipple. Fantastic.
Tastes Like Deer
Posted: Thursday, June 24th, 2010
According to the French jailbird who ate his cellmate’s lungs — the old windbags don’t taste like chicken. “What is terrible is that it (the lung) was good,” Nicolas Cocaign testified in court. “It has the taste of venison. It is tender.” After brutally killing his cellmate with a pair of scissors, Cocaign decided to make a lunch of him, ripping out his lung and concluding, after trying some raw lung, that it might taste better fried with onions. What a gourmand. Cocaign got 30 more years in the slammer for his nasty lunch.
Longevity Meds
Posted: Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Scientists at the National Institute on Aging may have found a fountain of youth in the transplant anti-rejection drug rapamycin. A medication long used to help prevent the rejection of transplanted organs, the drug has recently been found to extend life in other ways — lab mice who took rapamycin had their life expectancies extend as much as 38%. {via CNN}
Long Lost Twins?
Posted: Monday, May 24th, 2010
Since tomorrow is World Thyroid Day and the Empire Strikes Back celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year, we figured we ought to point out the striking similarities between the Storm IV Twin-Pod spaceship from Cloud City and the human thyroid. {Thyroid diagram by illustrator Carlyn Iverson}
Mind Your Guts
Posted: Friday, May 21st, 2010
We most often think of serotonin as being a mood-altering chemical that works the nerves in our brain to make us happy or sad, but did you know that most of the body’s serotonin is actually produced in the gut, where it works to regulate your bowels? “Such a copious amount of serotonin is released into the gut every day, in fact, that it would be lethal if the excess were not disposed of by certain cells in the gut lining that contain serotonin transporters,” says an article on Psychiatric News, which describes this interesting brain-gut connection. While you’ve still got serotonin on the brain, check out this gorgeous serotonin molecule necklace by Made With Molecules.
