News tagged with cardiomyocytes
Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light
In a compact lab space at Stanford University, Oscar Abilez, MD, trains a microscope on a small collection of cells in a petri dish. A video recorder projects what the microscope sees on a nearby monitor. The cells in the ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Researchers create nanopatch for the heart
When you suffer a heart attack, a part of your heart dies. Nerve cells in the heart's wall and a special class of cells that spontaneously expand and contract – keeping the heart beating in perfect synchronicity ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 19, 2011 |
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Editing scrambled genes in human stem cells may help realize the promise of stem cell-gene therapy
In principle, genetic engineering is simple, but in practice, replacing a faulty gene with a healthy copy is anything but. Using mutated versions of the lamin A gene as an example to demonstrate the versatility of their virus-based ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Webcam technology used to measure medications' effects on the heart
A common component in webcams may help drug makers and prescribers address a common side-effect of drugs called cardiotoxicity, an unhealthy change in the way the heart beats. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 03, 2011 |
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A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Will we hear the light? Surprising discovery that infrared can activate heart and ear cells
University of Utah scientists used invisible infrared light to make rat heart cells contract and toadfish inner-ear cells send signals to the brain. The discovery someday might improve cochlear implants for ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Human stem cells from fat tissue fuse with rat heart cells and beat
If Dr. Doolittle is famous for talking to animals, then here's a story that might make him hold his tongue: According to new research published online in The FASEB Journal, scientists have successfully fused human stem c ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Newborn heart muscle can grow back by itself
In a promising science-fiction-meets-real-world juxtaposition, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 24, 2011 |
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A cardiac use for stem cells
It's one of the most vexing problems in medical science: How can you mend a broken heart?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Skin cells help to develop possible heart defect treatment in first-of-its-kind study
Using skin cells from young patients who have a severe genetic heart defect, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have generated beating heart cells that carry the same genetic mutation. The newly created human ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Bioengineers 'pump' life into post-heart attack therapies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bioengineers at UC San Diego are one step closer to improving therapies for heart attack victims.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 18, 2011 |
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