The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart

The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart

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How science is opening up the mysteries of the heart, revealing the poetry in motion within the machine.Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any humanmade creation. It beats 100,000 times every dayif you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decades of effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the hearts perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite Machine, new scientific developments are opening up the mysteries of the heart. And this explosion of new scienceultrafast imaging, gene editing, stem cells, artificial intelligence, and advanced sublight microscopyhas crucial, realworld consequences for health and wellbeing.Hardinga world leader in cardiac researchexplores the relation between the emotions and heart function, reporting that the heart not only responds to our emotions, it creates them as well. The condition known as Broken Heart Syndrome, for example, is a real disorder than can follow bereavement or stress. The Exquisite Machine describes the evolutionary forces that have shaped the hearts response to damage, the astonishing rejuvenating power of stem cells, how we can avoid heart disease, and why it can be so hard to repair a damaged heart. It tells the stories of patients who have had the devastating experiences of a heart attack, chaotic heart rhythms, or stressinduced acute heart failure. And it describes how cuttingedge technologies are enabling experiments and clinical trials that will lead us to new solutions to the worldwide scourge of heart disease.

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