Researchers introduce improved injectable scaffold to promote healing
Rice University scientists have found the balance necessary to aid healing with high-tech hydrogel.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2015
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News tagged with endothelial cells
New chip promising for tumor-targeting research
(Phys.org) —Researchers have developed a chip capable of simulating a tumor's "microenvironment" and plan to use the new system to test the effectiveness of nanoparticles and drugs that target cancer.
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 22, 2014
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Targeting cancer cells with nanoparticles
Scientists have discovered that a polymer can provide a key to get into tumors: Prof. Prasad Shastri, Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and core member of the cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 11, 2014
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In vitro innovation: Testing nanomedicine with blood cells on a microchip
Designing nanomedicine to combat diseases is a hot area of scientific research, primarily for treating cancer, but very little is known in the context of atherosclerotic disease. Scientists have engineered a microchip coated ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 4, 2014
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Synthetic mRNA can induce self-repair, regeneration of the infarcted heart
A team of scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Harvard University has taken a major step towards treatment for heart attack, by instructing the injured heart in mice to heal by expressing a factor that triggers cardiovascular ...
Biotechnology
Sep 8, 2013
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Researchers use nanoparticles to speed up or slow down angiogenesis
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. have devised a means for using nanoparticles to cause angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels) to speed up or slow down. In their paper published ...
Rod-shaped nanoparticles, rather than spherical, appear more effective at adhering to cells
Conventional treatments for diseases such as cancer can carry harmful side effects—and the primary reason is that such treatments are not targeted specifically to the cells of the body where they're needed. What if drugs ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 10, 2013
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Study uncovers enzyme's double life, critical role in cancer blood supply
Studied for decades for their essential role in making proteins within cells, several amino acids known as tRNA synthetases were recently found to have an unexpected – and critical – additional role in cancer metastasis ...
Biochemistry
Mar 4, 2013
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F. nucleatum enables breaking bond on blood vessels to allow invaders in
A common oral bacteria, Fusobacterium nucleatum, acts like a key to open a door in human blood vessels and leads the way for it and other bacteria like Escherichia coli to invade the body through the blood and make people ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2011
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Laying bare the not-so-sweet tale of a sugar and its role in the spread of cancer
Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor cells to turn the intricate and extensive system of lymphatic ...
Biochemistry
Apr 25, 2011
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