Medical research
Computer-aided design used for breast tissue reconstruction
A technology usually reserved for designing buildings, bridges and aircraft has now been used to aid breast tissue reconstruction in cancer patients.
Sep 8, 2011
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News tagged with scar tissue
Medical research
Cancer drug promotes regeneration of damaged neurons
Damage to the spinal cord rarely heals because the injured nerve cells fail to regenerate. The regrowth of their long nerve fibers is hindered by scar tissue and molecular processes inside the nerves. An international team ...
Mar 12, 2015
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Medical research
The cellular origin of fibrosis: Team identifies rare stem cells that give rise to chronic tissue scarring
Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, ...
Nov 20, 2014
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Cardiology
Patching up a broken heart
It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart attack when arteries to the heart are blocked – the heart's muscle cells start ...
Jun 19, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cell therapy trial offers new hope to liver disease patients
Liver disease patients could be helped by a new cell therapy to treat the condition.
Nov 24, 2014
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Genetics
TBX20 enhances reprogramming of heart fibroblasts into heart muscle cells
Mammalian hearts have almost no ability to grow new heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, after birth. Thus, dead tissue after an adult heart attack is not repaired with new cardiomyocytes. It is instead replaced with ...
Oct 21, 2022
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Diabetes
Pediatric liver disease increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common pediatric liver disease, affecting 5 to 8 million children in the United States. In NAFLD, the cells of the liver store large fat droplets, which can affect the ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Medical research
Scientists make single-cell map to reprogram scar tissue into healthy heart cells
Every year 790,000 Americans suffer a heart attack, which leaves damaged scar tissue on the heart and limits its ability to beat efficiently. But what if scientists could reprogram scar tissue cells called fibroblasts into ...
Jun 20, 2019
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Cardiology
Scientists ID source of damaging inflammation after heart attack
Scientists have zeroed in on a culprit that spurs damaging inflammation in the heart following a heart attack. The guilty party is a type of immune cell that tries to heal the injured heart but instead triggers inflammation ...
Jun 7, 2018
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Medical research
Inhibiting certain fibroblasts in the skin eliminates scarring in mice
A team of researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine has found that inhibiting the production of a certain fibroblast in the skin can eliminate scarring—at least in mice. In their paper published in the journal ...
