( notes taken during class )

Here's a nice link to a paper on heart signaling, thanks to Sara ( Read more... )

Today at 8am I went into the lab and held in my hands a human heart. I have studied anatomy many times before. I have dissected a living pregant mouse, a frog, and a pelican whose gut contents did not reveal the reason he was dead on the beach. I have dissected a fetal pig, complete with colored plastic injected into his arteries and veins. I ( Read more... )