{"title":"Giant Microbes","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"heart","title":"Giant Microbes - Heart","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 5px 0; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0072\/8199\/9924\/files\/warning.png?3097\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: inline; position: relative; top: 3px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWARNING: CHOKING HAZARD\u003c\/b\u003e - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdescription\u003e \n\n\nHow much do I love thee? How about a million barrels worth and 2.5 billion heartbeats! Your heart is only about the size of your fist and 10 ounces, but it accomplishes quite a lot in your lifetime. Get your heart pounding with our incredible plush Heart organ. The perfect way to say \"I Love You!\" Get pumped for this educational, medical get well soon gift. Perfect for post-surgery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe heart has long been considered the center of the body, the seat of life, will and emotion. Every culture in history has recognized its essential role in sustaining life. The Egyptians believed the heart to be the center of life and mortality. The ancient Greeks believed it held the soul and the source of body heat. Early Americans recognized the heart to be vital to life. Weighing in at about 10 ounces, an adult heart is about the size of your fist and consists of four chambers: the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle. Blood flows from the right atrium, to the right ventricle, and to the lungs to become oxygenated. Blood then re-enters the heart through the pulmonary veins to the left atrium, then the left ventricle pumps it through the aorta out to the body. The human heart pumps blood at a rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute through the 60,000 miles of blood vessels packed in your body, delivering oxygen and nutrients to your organs and cells. That’s like traveling around the world twice. Your heart beats about 100,000 times in a day or 35 million times in a year, a lot of pumping for one lifetime. So the next time your Valentine asks how much you love them, you can tell them “A million barrels worth and 2.5 billion heartbeats.”\n\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes one Heart plush. 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Not for children under 3 years.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdescription\u003e The miraculous stem cell is the body's dreamer – it can grow up to be whatever it wants to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nMost cells in the body are experts at specific functions such as generating electrical impulses in the brain, or carrying oxygen through the blood – or digesting your lunch! However, stem cells are very special cells because they have no specialty except to remain ready, willing, and able to become, someday, whatever is needed. In the first few days of a person’s life, of course, a lot of cellular construction work is required immediately to put you together. Stem cells spring into action, differentiating into the myriad cells that make you who you are. They are called pluripotent because they can differentiate into anything they want. But like Peter Pan, some of these embryonic stem cells don’t want to be anything but what they are. They refuse to grow up, and choose to remain stem cells even as the adult grows around them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nMost of these adult (or somatic) stem cells do eventually differentiate into specialized cells, though by then their imaginations limit them to becoming cells like the tissue where they live, dutifully repairing any damage that has happened through the course of life. But some don’t – and scientists would love to get their hooks into them to find out what makes them tick. In fact, scientists have already figured out how to make somatic stem cells more child-like, restoring their pluripotent powers. Because if cells can really become anything they want, the tantalizing possibility for eternal youth really exists.\n\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes one Stem Cell plush. 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