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African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic the HEART / Artificial Jellyfish Engineered out of Rat Heart Muscles African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic Volume 7, Issue 12 NEWSLETTER November/December 2012 THE HEART / ♥♥ Artificial Jellyfish Engineered What is the African Traditional Out of Rat Heart Muscles Herbal Research Clinic? We can make you healthy and wise By John Roach Nakato Lewis NBC News Blackherbals at the Source of the Nile, UG Ltd. July 24, 2012 The African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic located in Ntinda, Uganda is a modern clinic facility established to create a model space whereby indigenous herbal practitioners and healers can upgrade and update their skills through training and certification and respond to common diseases using African healing methods and traditions in a modern clinical environment. Traditional healers are the major health labor resource in Africa as a whole. In Uganda, indigenous traditional healers are the only source of health services for the Colorized image of the tissue-engineered jellyfish, majority of the population. An estimated 80% of the "swimming" in a container of ocean-like saltwater. population receives its health education and health care Dubbed "Medusoid," the bioengineered construct is from practitioners of traditional medicine. They are made from silicone rubber and powered by lab-grown knowledgeable of the culture, the local languages and heart tissue. It was built in a proof-of-concept study at local traditions. Our purpose is to raise public Caltech and Harvard for designing muscular pumps for awareness and understanding on the value of African biomedical applications. traditional herbal medicine and other healing practices in today’s world. Continued on page 2 The Clinic is open and operational. Some of the I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE services we offer are African herbal medicine, 3 Afrikan Spirituality – The Shabaka Text reflexology, acupressure, hot and cold hydrotherapy, 4 Feature – Six Sounds to Heal and Cure, The Heart Sound body massage, herbal tonics, patient counseling, blood 6 Feature – The Heart has its own Brain and Consciousness pressure checks, urine testing (sugar), and nutritional 8 Feature – Heart and Circulatory System profiles. We believe in spirit, mind and body. Spiritual 14 Cesium Connection to Heart Disease counseling upon request. 18 Study finds Stain Drugs Accelerate Hardening of the Arteries 19 Feature – The Calcium Supplement Problem Visit us also at www.Blackherbals.com 21 Electrolytes of Significance in Heart Functioning 25 Confront Salt Confusion Hours: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday thru Friday 30 Feature - Heart Disease –Beyond the Stent & Bypass Saturday by Appointment, Sundays – Closed 37 Ulcer Causing Bacteria associated with Heart Disease 41 Feature- Radiation Exposure and Heart Attacks - Fukushima 50 Heavy Metals and their Link to Heart Disease 51 Feature – Kemetic Medicine 55 The Ancient Egyptian Heart 57 Feature – Phytochemicals and Cardiovascular Disease 60 Can Dietary Flavonoids influence Development of CHD 69 Feature - Towards an Africology of Knowledge Production 84 Tuberculosis is 500,000 Years Old 85 Where is Your Heart? 86 Herbs of the Month – Garlic & More -1- Traditional African Clinic – November/December 2012 Cont’d from page 1- Artificial Jellyfish engineered out of It allows researchers to take rat heart cells and pattern them in different shapes and sizes that act as actuators – “things Rat Heart Muscles that can move, they can pump, they can flap,” Dabiri said. Scientists have made an artificial jellyfish out of rat heart For the jelly part, the team used a thin layer of silicone muscles and rubbery silicon. When given an electric rubber. shock, it swims just like the real thing. Putting together the pieces Future versions should be able to swim and feed by The next step was to put the two pieces together in the best themselves. possible way to get a functioning jellyfish. Instead of “That then allows us to extend their lifetime,” John simply copying nature, the team tried out all kinds of muscle patterns, looking for the best. Dabiri, a professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, told me. “As engineers in this process of building artificial jellyfish, The breakthrough is a big step toward the development of we simply don’t have the same constraints that evolution an artificial human heart with living cells. It also opens a does,” Dabiri said. window to a future where humans could loosen the “These organisms, as they evolve, have to worry about constraints of evolution. fending off predators, catching their prey, reproducing. All “The design of the heart that we have today is by no we have to do is show up in a lab and try to be creative.” means the best physically possible design,” Dabiri said. “So, it is a very different set of constraints that we have in “It is the one that evolution stumbled onto over the course terms of developing this, and so it is not surprising that we of millions of years of random searching.” might find solutions that are different from what might It’s possible, perhaps probable, that there’s a better have come through evolution.” design out there for humans to discover. An artificial In the end, the team settled on a muscle arrangement that is heart, for example, could be engineered to steer clear of similar to that of the jellyfish, but “not a carbon copy,” heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. Dabiri said. Building a better pump When the team put the engineered jellyfish into a pool of To get there, though, scientists must first understand how ionized water and sent an electric signal through the water, biology assembles its building blocks into a pump, Dabiri the fish swam like a real jellyfish. noted. “We haven’t yet developed an internal pacemaking system “We know pretty well how to build engineered pumps, within these artificial jellyfish, so the way that we control things that are built out of steel and aluminum and so on,” the functioning is, we shock them,” Dabiri explained. he said. “We don’t have as good a handle right now in Future of jellyfish and hearts biology on how nature builds things out of muscle An internal pacemaker mechanism and chemical receptors tissues.” that act as a nose to sniff out food are additions planned for To start, they looked to the jellyfish, an example of a future versions of the jellyfish, called Medusoid, to give it simple biological pump, and tried to build it in the lab greater autonomy. from scratch. This might raise science-fiction fears of giant artificial Jellyfish essentially have two parts: muscle cells that jellyfish roaming the waters – note that there’s another squeeze down on the body, pushing out water and jetting group working on robotic jellyfish that will never run out of the animal the opposite way, and elastic stretchy tissue energy. But in reality, the main application for the (the jelly) that gently recovers to its relaxed shape after technology would be in biomedicine. Even in its current each pump. “In our engineered system, we needed to form, Medusoid could be used to test the effect drugs have have these two components,” Dabiri explained. on the pumping mechanism of a heart, for example. The team could have used jellyfish tissue and jellyfish In the future, the research may lead to an artificial heart. muscle, but “it so happens that the building blocks we are One, perhaps, that is better than a healthy human heart. And more familiar with in tissue engineering come from the if we can engineer better hearts, will we stop there? Does heart cells of rats,” he said. this open the door to a completely rebuilt – and improved – The technique was pioneered by Kevin Kit Parker, a human? bioengineer at Harvard and co-author of a paper http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/artificial- describing the artificial jellyfish published today in the jellyfish-engineered-out-rat-heart-muscles-899197 journal Nature Biotechnology. ☻☻☻☻☻☻ -2- Traditional African Clinic – November/December 2012 AFRIKAN SPIRITUALITY The Shabaka Text The living Horus; Who prospers the Two Lands; the Two Ladies: Who prospers the Two Lands; the Golden Horus: Who prospers the Two Lands; King of Upper and Lower Egypt: Neferkare; the Son of Re: Sha[baka], beloved of Ptah-South-of-his-Wall, who lives like Re forever. The traditional shrine as a symbol of our cultural history This writing was copied out anew by his majesty in the house of his father Ptah-South-of-his-Wall, for his majesty found it to be a work of the ancestors which was worm- eaten, so that it could not be understood from the beginning for he is the son of his firstborn son. to end. His majesty copied it anew so that it became better Geb's words to the Nine Gods: "I have appointed than it had been before, in order that his name might endure Horus, the firstborn." and his monument last in the House of his father Ptah- South-of-his-Wall throughout eternity, as a work done by Geb's words to the Nine Gods: "Him alone, Horus, the son of Re [Shabaka] for his father Ptah-Tatenen, so that the inheritance." he might live forever. Geb's words to the Nine Gods: "To his heir, Horus, /// [King of Upper and Lower Egypt] is this Ptah, who is my inheritance." called the great name: [Ta-te]nen [South-of-his-Wall, Lord Geb's words to the Nine Gods: "To the son of my of eternity] ///. /// [the joiner] of Upper and Lower Egypt is son, Horus, the Jackal of Upper Egypt /// Geb's he, this uniter who arose as king of Upper Egypt and arose words to the Nine Gods: "The firstborn, Horus, the as king of Lower Egypt.
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