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Heart pumps out new cells!

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Swedish scientists have used radioactive carbon-14 to show that between 0.5 and 1.0% of heart cells regenerate each year, depending on age. Read more here.

We were talking about bees in class during the last week of term – I happened upon this interesting article from the Scientific American – “Plan Bee: As Honeybees Die Out, Will Other Species Take Their Place?”

I’ve also added a few more resources to the Free Stuff! column on the RHS – Check out “Biology Q and A” for over 1800 questions and answers about Biology.