Cardiology
Supercooling advances human tissue preservation
Researchers at UC Berkeley successfully revived human heart tissue after it had been preserved in a subfreezing, supercooled state for one to three days.
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Cardiology
Bio-inspired hydrogel protects the heart from post-op adhesions
A hydrogel that forms a barrier to keep heart tissue from adhering to surrounding tissue after surgery was developed and successfully tested in rodents by a team of University of California San Diego researchers. The team ...
Jun 18, 2021
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Hydrogel injection may change the way the heart muscle heals after a heart attack
Researchers at CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at NUI Galway, and BIOFORGE Lab, at the University of Valladolid in Spain, have developed an injectable hydrogel that could help repair and prevent ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Researchers unravel the healing mechanisms of extracellular vesicles
Extracellular vesicles (EVs)—nanometer sized messengers that travel between cells to deliver cues and cargo—are promising tools for the next generation of therapies for everything from autoimmune and neurodegenerative ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Bioengineers explore cardiac tissue remodeling after aortic valve replacement procedures
University of Colorado Boulder engineers and faculty from the Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation (CFReT) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have teamed up to develop biomaterial-based "mimics" ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Why a blow to the chest can kill or save you
A blow to the chest can have highly contrasting effects. For instance, some baseball players have died after being hit in the chest by a baseball, while patients undergoing fatal cardiac tachyarrhythmias have been saved by ...
Feb 22, 2019
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Device attaches directly to damaged heart, enabling delivery of multiple therapy doses
After a patient has a heart attack, a cascade of events leading to heart failure begins. Damage to the area in the heart where a blood vessel was blocked leads to scar tissue. In response to scarring, the heart will remodel ...
Jun 11, 2018
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Biomechanical mapping method aids development of therapies for damaged heart tissue
Researchers have developed a new way to capture the detailed biomechanical properties of heart tissue. The high-resolution optical technique fills an important technology gap necessary to develop and test therapies that might ...
Jan 23, 2018
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Scientists reprogram stem cells to regenerate muscle in muscular dystrophy
Specially programmed stem cells demonstrated the potential to regenerate lost muscle mass in muscular dystrophy, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.
Dec 22, 2017
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Beating heart patch is large enough to repair the human heart
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major ...
Nov 28, 2017
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