No. 6: Loma Linda and Baboon Hearts
I'm in Loma Linda, CA today. My brother has a residency interview at LLU, and I got to come along for a little roadtrip.
I've learned that it's possible for a human to survive with the heart of animal. In 1980 something, some doctors at Loma Linda University put the heart of a baboon into a newborn ("Baby Fae") with a heart defect. The child lived for a month with the heart of a baboon keeping it alive.
Oh, and Loma Linda means "beautiful hill"... we haven't seen them yet though because we arrived when it was dark already.
