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Type of breast reconstruction impacts radiation therapy outcomes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For breast cancer patients who underwent a mastectomy who undergo radiation therapy after immediate breast reconstruction, autologous tissue reconstruction provides fewer long-term complications and better cosmetic results ...


Advancement in tissue engineering promotes oral wound healing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oral tissue engineering for transplantation to aid wound healing in mouth (oral cavity) reconstruction has taken a significant step forward with a Netherlands-based research team's successful development of a gum tissue (gingival) ...


Researchers Use Adult Stem Cells to Create Soft Tissue

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 06, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A Columbia University research team aims to create soft tissue from patients' own bone marrow to perform facial or breast reconstruction.


Study: Speaking, eating possible after tonsil cancer surgery with reconstruction

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new technique for reconstructing the palate after surgery for tonsil cancer maintained patients' ability to speak clearly and eat most foods, a new study shows.


Plastic surgeons offer microsurgery technique for breast reconstruction, tummy tuck after mastectomy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s. She wondered whether it would be her fate too.


Production line for artificial skin

Production line for artificial skin

Biology /

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Some patients wish they had a second skin – for instance because their own skin has been burnt in a severe accident. But transplanting skin is a painstaking task, and a transplant that has to cover large areas ...


Hybrid scanner brings molecular functioning to the forefront

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A major barrier to developing a hybrid positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system could be removed by using a novel approach for reconstructing data, according to researchers at SNM's 56th Annual ...


Breast reconstruction advances fix distortions left by lumpectomy

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lumpectomy or breast conservation surgery is the most common type of breast cancer surgery currently performed. A benefit of the surgery is that only part of the breast is removed, but a drawback can be the resulting physical ...


Researcher regenerates brain tissue in traumatic injuries

Researcher regenerates brain tissue in traumatic injuries

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

An injectable biomaterial gel may help brain tissue grow at the site of a traumatic brain injury, according to findings by a Clemson University bioengineer.


Using cotton candy to create bloodflow routes

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cotton candy has delighted children for a century. Now it may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. The flossy stuff may be just right for creating networks of blood ...


Fat Tissue Engineers Gather to Swap Notes on Repairing Human Tissue

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 23, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Doctors, fat researchers and tissue engineers from around the world will trade techniques and their latest research findings to improve the use of human fat tissue in medical therapies like facial, breast, bone, vocal cord ...


Cold case techniques bring mummy’s face to life

Cold case techniques bring mummy's face to life

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the Oriental Institute’s mummy Meresamun may have looked like in real life.


Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative ...


Layered approach may yield stronger, more successful bone implants

Layered approach may yield stronger, more successful bone implants

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 17, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers from the American Dental Association Foundation (ADAF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new method for layering two kinds of biomaterials into one strong, ...


Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues.