<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : organs : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Radical new treatment could end transplant crisis by stopping bodies rejecting new organs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42450/1/" /><id>42450</id><summary><![CDATA[Radical new treatment could end transplant crisis by stopping bodies rejecting new organs]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T08:01:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T08:01:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A radical treatment that &quot;rinses&quot; organs and then implants them with patients' DNA is being hailed as a solution to the transplant crisis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Bionic' nerve to bring damanged limbs and organs back to life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/38833/1/" /><id>38833</id><summary><![CDATA['Bionic' nerve to bring damanged limbs and organs back to life]]></summary><issued>2007-10-19T05:51:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-19T05:51:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[University of Manchester researchers have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells &#8212; and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Back from dead before organs removed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/64996/1/" /><id>64996</id><summary><![CDATA[Back from dead before organs removed]]></summary><issued>2008-06-10T22:09:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-10T22:09:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 90 minutes only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Police foil college prank - truck full of rotting fish, cow parts, and pig organs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/18395/1/" /><id>18395</id><summary><![CDATA[Police foil college prank - truck full of rotting fish, cow parts, and pig organs]]></summary><issued>2007-04-29T12:04:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-29T12:04:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Authorities found a rental truck filled with rotting fish, cow parts and pig organs. Four University of Arizona students had rented the truck and collected the smelly cargo intending to dump it on someone&#8217;s front lawn as a prank.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sexually active gay men no longer allowed to donate organs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46351/1/" /><id>46351</id><summary><![CDATA[Sexually active gay men no longer allowed to donate organs]]></summary><issued>2008-01-08T03:03:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-08T03:03:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A number of organ donation groups said Monday that they are unaware of new Health Canada regulations that mean sexually active gay men, injection drug users and other groups considered high risk will no longer be accepted as organ donors.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man declared dead, says he feels 'pretty good']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55477/1/" /><id>55477</id><summary><![CDATA[Man declared dead, says he feels 'pretty good']]></summary><issued>2008-03-24T16:10:45+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-24T16:10:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Zach Dunlap says he feels &quot;pretty good,&quot; four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Doctor accused of hastening death for patient's organs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52896/1/" /><id>52896</id><summary><![CDATA[ Doctor accused of hastening death for patient's organs]]></summary><issued>2008-03-03T17:08:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-03T17:08:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ugh]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Should the U.S. legalize the sale of body organs?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15759/1/" /><id>15759</id><summary><![CDATA[Should the U.S. legalize the sale of body organs?]]></summary><issued>2007-04-10T10:34:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-10T10:34:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sunday's Editorial page asked Tribune readers to respond to that question.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Cannibal' arrested after eating homeless man's organs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33555/1/" /><id>33555</id><summary><![CDATA['Cannibal' arrested after eating homeless man's organs]]></summary><issued>2007-08-29T01:41:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-29T01:41:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Police in Vienna are interrogating a man suspected of murdering a fellow homeless man and possibly eating his organs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Which parts of the human body could you design better?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40543/1/" /><id>40543</id><summary><![CDATA[Which parts of the human body could you design better?]]></summary><issued>2007-11-03T20:36:35+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-03T20:36:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A common retort to the idea of an &quot;intelligent design&quot; is that the design of our organs isn't very intelligent. Denialism ask how would you redesign the various organs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hiroshima scientists create transparent frogs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/36598/1/" /><id>36598</id><summary><![CDATA[Hiroshima scientists create transparent frogs]]></summary><issued>2007-09-24T19:17:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-24T19:17:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Transparent frogs will prove useful as laboratory animals because they make it easier and cheaper to observe the development and progress of cancer, the growth and aging of internal organs, and the effects of chemicals on organs]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Transplant surgeon prescribed drugs to hasten death]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29763/1/" /><id>29763</id><summary><![CDATA[Transplant surgeon prescribed drugs to hasten death]]></summary><issued>2007-07-31T23:59:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-31T23:59:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The drugs were prescribed &quot;to accelerate Mr Navarro's death in order to recover his organs.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Chinese selling organs from executed prisoners]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/1387/1/" /><id>1387</id><summary><![CDATA[Chinese selling organs from executed prisoners]]></summary><issued>2006-09-27T19:22:18+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-27T19:22:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The lastest market to boom in China has been the sale of  organs from excuted prisoners to overseas buyers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[More than 5?! How many senses do humans have?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38968/1/" /><id>38968</id><summary><![CDATA[More than 5?! How many senses do humans have?]]></summary><issued>2007-10-20T05:38:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-20T05:38:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Then there&#8217;s your vomeronasal organ. It senses pheromones, and alters your behavior, hormones, and who knows what else. With alcohol, it causes paternity suits. With lower mammals, it causes paternity without lawyers. *LINK FIXED TO CORRECT*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[TV Dust Carries Harmful Chemical]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61650/1/" /><id>61650</id><summary><![CDATA[TV Dust Carries Harmful Chemical]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T08:05:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T08:05:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dust that covers your television set contains a chemical called flame retardant that interferes with the normal functioning of nervous system and hormonal function, may also harm reproductive organs and was found to cause cancer]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What Makes Us Moral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42367/1/" /><id>42367</id><summary><![CDATA[What Makes Us Moral]]></summary><issued>2007-11-23T07:54:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-23T07:54:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We're a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another. And at the same time, we slaughter one another.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[After-lives of celebrated organs...]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/14849/1/" /><id>14849</id><summary><![CDATA[After-lives of celebrated organs...]]></summary><issued>2007-04-01T13:56:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-01T13:56:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[...or how Napoleon lost his penis. <br/>(photo courtesy of Worth 1000)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[An end to the need for dialysis?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72712/1/" /><id>72712</id><summary><![CDATA[An end to the need for dialysis?]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T11:55:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T11:55:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[MELBOURNE scientists have developed a drug that may prevent a condition responsible for up to 45% of all deaths in the Western world. The drug prevents the spread of fibrosis, the scarring of organs that exasperates the severity of many diseases, including kidney diseases.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/68479/1/" /><id>68479</id><summary><![CDATA[Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-11T16:51:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-11T16:51:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Marijuana-like substances made by the skin are necessary for a healthy complexion, a new study concludes. The skin has joined the growing club of organs that is known to produce &quot;endocannabinoids&quot; &#8212; the body's own reefer. The biggest producer of endogenous pot is the brain.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Presumed Consent For Organ Donation Coming]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/47092/1/" /><id>47092</id><summary><![CDATA[Presumed Consent For Organ Donation Coming]]></summary><issued>2008-01-13T14:27:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-13T14:27:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Possibly inspired* by <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/f/2896/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Punthe's forum thread</a> of two days ago, Gordon Brown today announced plans to reform the organ donation process including adopting the presumption that all organs can be harvested unless expressly stated.<br/><br/>*You never know who reads Plime...]]></content></entry></items></xml>