Medical research
Team develops 3-D tissue model of a developing human heart
The heart is the first organ to develop in the womb and the first cause of concern for many parents.
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Oncology & Cancer
Area surrounding a tumor impacts how breast cancer cells grow
Cancer is typically thought of as a tumor that needs to be removed or an area that needs to be treated with radiation or chemotherapy. As a physicist and cancer researcher, Joe Gray, Ph.D., thinks differently.
Mar 14, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Extracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles
Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologous—their own—immune ...
Mar 12, 2018
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Medical research
'Decorated' stem cells could offer targeted heart repair
Although cardiac stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for heart attack patients, directing the cells to the site of an injury - and getting them to stay there - remains challenging. In a new pilot study using an animal ...
Jan 10, 2018
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Neuroscience
Team finds that brain implants can rely on more than neurons to function
Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated ...
Jan 8, 2018
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Diabetes
Spider's web inspires removable implant that may control type 1 diabetes
For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily insulin injections are literally a matter of life and death. And while there is no cure, a Cornell University-led research team has developed a device ...
Jan 2, 2018
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Medical research
For the first time, researchers control cells' chromatin to prevent cancer from adapting to treatment
Northwestern Engineering's Vadim Backman has developed an effective new strategy for treating cancer, which has wiped out the disease to near completion in cellular cultures in the laboratory.
Nov 6, 2017
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Immunology
Cholesterol-like molecules switch off the engine in cancer-targeting 'Natural Killer' cells
Scientists have just discovered how the engine that powers cancer-killing cells functions. Crucially, their research also highlights how that engine is fuelled and that cholesterol-like molecules, called oxysterols, act as ...
Sep 18, 2017
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Medical research
Artificial blood vessels mimic rare accelerated aging disease
Biomedical engineers have grown miniature human blood vessels that exhibit many of the symptoms and drug reactions associated with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome—an extremely rare genetic disease that causes symptoms ...
Aug 15, 2017
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Cardiology
3-D-printed patch can help mend a 'broken' heart
A team of biomedical engineering researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has created a revolutionary 3D-bioprinted patch that can help heal scarred heart tissue after a heart attack. The discovery is a major step ...
Apr 14, 2017
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