找三篇英文新闻……内容分别是：人体循环器官移植动物物种

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找三篇英文新闻……
内容分别是：
人体循环
器官移植
动物物种

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浜轰綋寰?幆:
Chair Made From Recycled Hair (Jennifer Viegas,Discovery News)
Dec.14,2006 鈥 Hair trimmings at barbershops and beauty salons are often swept up and discarded.But a former London hairdresser,who is now a researcher at London South Bank University,has found a use for the excess cuttings 鈥 a chair made out of human hair.
In the future,additional products,such as structural beams,shoes,clothing,mascara and boat parts,may also be made out of human hair,which is "a cut above" fiberglass and many other petroleum-based products,according to the chair's inventor,Ronald Thompson.
"This free,sustainable and abundant resource can be molded into any shape and mixed with any matrix," said Thompson,who was an assistant hairdresser for famed stylists John Frieda and Nicky Clarke.
"It is versatile,waterproof,non-conductive,corrosion free,fire resistant,tough,strong,durable and is able to compete with products,such as medium-density fiberboard,fiberglass,polymers and aluminum," he added.
Thompson,who has styled the locks of many Miss World contestants,was inspired to recycle hair after working on the set of the film "Batman Begins." He stretched a piece of fiberglass,which snapped.He did the same thing to a strand of hair,which withstood far more stretching.
He learned that one strand of hair can support 8,750 times its own weight,a head of hair can support over 13 tons and that hair can double its own length before breaking.
Lab work led to a product called Pilius X,the structural basis for the chair and his other proposed inventions.It's a hair-based bio-polymer mixed with a recyclable bio-resin.
Like hair itself,Pilius X can be dyed to almost any color.
鍣ㄥ畼绉绘?:
Heart transplants:25 years on (By Ray Dunne,BBC News Online health staff)
It is 25 years since the first successful heart transplant was carried out in the UK.BBC News Online looks back on this medical milestone.
Gordon MacDonald is one of the UK's longest surviving heart transplant patient.
He underwent surgery in 1979.His heart was failing and he was critically ill.
"Life was very difficult," he says."I was only 40 years old.I had young children.I had everything to live for.
"But I was very ill.My life was ebbing away."
Doctors offered Gordon a heart transplant.It was a gamble.There was no guarantee it would save his life.
The procedure had only been carried out on a small number of patients around the world,with mixed results.
Gordon jumped at the chance."I was absolutely delighted," he says.
The surgery,which was carried out at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire,was a success.
"I felt fantastically well after the transplant," he says.
"I started to do things that I hadn't done for a long time,such as walking,cycling and swimming.
"My life changed from that day.It changed in every way."
British pioneer
The operation was carried out by Sir Terrence English.He had spent most of the 1970s in the United States,where he developed the skills needed to carry out such a complex procedure.
On his return to Britain,Sir Terrence faced some opposition to his plans to carry out heart transplants.
"There were a lot of difficulties," he says."We didn't have approval from the Department of Health to carry out heart transplants.
"We had tacit approval from the local health authority,which agreed to fund two operations.There was a lot of pressure on us to succeed."
The first patient died before he could have the transplant.However,subsequent attempts proved more successful.
"We were very relieved," says the now-retired surgeon.
Over 1,000 people have since gone on to have a heart transplant at Papworth.
Sir Terrence and his colleagues went on to achieve even greater things.
In 1984,they carried out Europe's first successful heart-lung transplant.
The following year,they performed the world's first heart,lung and liver transplant.
Ten years ago,they carried out the world's first operation to give a man a "bionic" heart - a battery-operated heart known as a ventricular assist device.
鍔ㄧ墿鐗╃?:
Susceptibility of animal species to the H5N1 Asian strain (Joint statement by the OIE and the FAO)
13 April 2006,Rome - The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and FAO confirm that the animal species playing a role in the transmission and spread of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza virus are essentially domestic and wild birds.
Although some fifty non-domestic bird species have proved susceptible to infection with the virus,it would appear from the epidemiological data currently available that,among the wild birds implicated in the transboundary spread of the virus,aquatic birds play a major role.
Epidemiological findings and experimental studies have demonstrated that some mammal species,particularly cats may be susceptible to the virus.However,from the data that have accumulated since the start of the current avian influenza crisis (end of 2003),cats do not appear to play any discernable role in the transmission of the virus in the natural setting.
The OIE and the FAO can thus confirm the statement issued by the World Health Organization (WHO)on 28 February 2006 that "there is no present evidence that domestic cats can play a role in the transmission cycle of H5N1 viruses".
Nevertheless,in view of the susceptibility of certain individuals of this species,it is recommended that cats in infected zones and surveillance zones set up around avian influenza outbreaks be kept indoors.