News tagged with living tissue

Scientists turn back the clock on adult stem cells aging

Researchers have shown they can reverse the aging process for human adult stem cells, which are responsible for helping old or damaged tissues regenerate. The findings could lead to medical treatments that may repair a host ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Researchers peer below the surface of living tissue

A fluorescent protein found in Monterey Bay's crystal jellyfish is helping University of California-Santa Cruz scientists peer deeper into living tissue.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Designed biomaterials mimicking biology: Potential scaffold for muscle regeneration

Engineered artificial proteins that mimic the elastic properties of muscles in living organisms are the subject of an article in Nature magazine to be released May 6.

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Glass helps damaged bone regenerate

(PhysOrg.com) -- A prosthodontist from Egypt is helping Lehigh researchers develop bioactive glass that mimics the behavior of living tissue.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1