Revolutionary discovery could help tackle skin and heart conditions
Scientists at The University of Manchester have made an important discovery about how certain cells stick to each other to form tissue.
Cell & Microbiology
May 13, 2015
0
24
News tagged with cardiac tissue
Related topics:
heart attack
ยท heart
Bioengineers put human hearts on a chip to aid drug screening
When University of California, Berkeley, bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands, they are not talking about emotional vulnerability.
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2015
0
2273
Voltage tester for beating cardiac cells
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in recording the current in membrane channels of contracting cardiac cells. To do this, the scientists combined an atomic force microscope with a widely used method for measuring ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 17, 2015
0
25
Researchers improve how a peptide can be delivered to the diseased heart tissue of mice via nanotechnology
School of Medicine researchers have developed a new formula for delivering the therapeutic peptide apelin to heart tissue. The delivery system, which dramatically increases the peptide's stability, shows promise for treating ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2014
0
0
Scientists use silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue
(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim are seeking to ...
Biochemistry
Jan 30, 2012
0
0
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.
Biotechnology
Mar 2, 2010
2
0
Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2009
1
0
Protective membrane for pacemakers prevents buildup of fibrotic tissue
A protective membrane for cardiac pacemakers developed at ETH Zurich has proved successful in animal trials in reducing the undesirable build-up of fibrotic tissue around the implant. The next step is to test the protective ...
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2019
0
16
A heartbeat away? Hybrid 'patch' could replace transplants
Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few stem cells, heart tissue is unable to repair itself after a heart attack. Now Tel Aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 30, 2014
0
0
How nanotechnology could keep your heart healthy
Since the heart is such a delicate and critical organ, clinicians usually opt not to intervene with the dead cells that remain after a heart attack or cardiac disease. "But we think that all heart attacks deserve some kind ...
Bio & Medicine
May 17, 2013
0
0
