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New strategy for mending broken hearts?

New strategy for mending broken hearts?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By mimicking the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle in a lab, Duke University bioengineers believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living "heart patch" ...


New hope for heart failure patients: Cardiac resynchronization

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A therapy called cardiac resynchronization can significantly delay the progression of heart failure, according to a major international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.


Drug prevents seizure progression in model of epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a new anticonvulsant compound that has the potential to stop the development of epilepsy. The findings are published in the March issue of the journal Epilepsia.


Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow

Carbon nanotube device can detect colors of the rainbow

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule ...


Nanotech coating could lead to better brain implants to treat diseases

Nanotech coating could lead to better brain implants to treat diseases

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical and materials engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a nanotech coating for brain implants that helps the devices operate longer and could improve treatment for ...


Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen have succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the activities of large parts of the brain can be altered ...