News tagged with heart tissue

Related topics: heart , heart failure , heart attack , stem cells , animal model

Scientists solve ageing puzzle (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by Newcastle University experts could provide the next step in fighting age related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Technique triggers rapid regrowth in damaged bone (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to re-grow a broken bone three times more quickly than normal. (Harry Potter fans? Think Skele-gro.) That’s just what researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoengineers aim to grow tissues with functional blood vessels

University of California, San Diego NanoEngineers won a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop the tools to manufacture biodegradable frames around which heart tissues – functional ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A master mechanism for regeneration?

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts. Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can re-grow fins.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Overweight male teens with normal blood pressures showing signs of heart damage

Even while their blood pressures are still normal, overweight male teens may have elevated levels of a hormone known to increase pressures as well as early signs of heart damage, researchers say.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Unexpected reservoir of monocytes discovered in the spleen

It takes a spleen to mend a broken heart - that's the conclusion of a surprising new report from researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Systems Biology, directed by Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A heart of gold: Better tissue repair after heart attack (Update)

A team of researchers at MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston has built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue whose cells all beat in time, mimicking ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanofiber breakthrough holds promise for medicine and microprocessors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery of 'bioelectric' arteries opens path to heart disease treatment

Bionic eyes and limbs made television's six million dollar man an icon, but new research suggests our existing biological structure already exhibits a valuable electrical property. Scientists have found that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Using own skin cells to repair hearts on horizon

A heart patient's own skin cells soon could be used to repair damaged cardiac tissue thanks to pioneering stem cell research of the University of Houston's newest biomedical scientist, Robert Schwartz.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Garlic oil shows protective effect against heart disease in diabetes

Garlic has "significant" potential for preventing cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes, scientists have concluded in a new study. Their report, which also explains ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Adult bone marrow stem cells injected into skeletal muscle can repair heart tissue

University at Buffalo researchers have demonstrated for the first time that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue, reversing heart failure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Images shed new light on inflammation (w/ Video)

Researchers at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine are using an innovative new imaging technique to study how white blood cells (called neutrophils) respond to inflammation, and have revealed new targets to inhibit ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electronic tattoo monitors brain, heart and muscles (w/ video)

Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen. Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions. The problem is that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New stretchable electronics device promises to make cardiac ablation therapy simpler

In an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can be a long and painful procedure ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast