News tagged with living tissue
Finding could lead to advance in nano-surgery
Nov 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the problems with laser surgery is that the heat produced can damage tissue, and even lead to cell death. Attempts are being made to replace laser surgery with non-thermal plasma interaction, ...
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Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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Brown University biomedical engineers can now grow and assemble living microtissues into complex three-dimensional structures in a way that will advance the field of tissue engineering and may eventually reduce ...
Microfabricated device measures cellular forces during tissue development (w/Video)
Jun 22, 2009 |
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A University of Pennsylvania-collaboration of bioengineers studying the physical forces generated by individual cells has created a tiny micron-sized device that allows researchers to measure and manipulate ...
Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue En ...
Slices of living brain tissue are helping scientists identify new stroke therapies
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Slices of living human brain tissue are helping scientists learn which drugs can block the waves of death that engulf and engorge brain cells following a stroke.
Newly identified cells make fat
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Oct 04, 2008 |
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To understand where fat comes from, you have to start with a skinny mouse. By using such a creature, and observing the growth of fat after injections of different kinds of immature cells, scientists at the ...
Stem cell breakthrough: Monitoring the on switch that turns stem cells into muscle
Mar 30, 2009 |
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In a genetic engineering breakthrough that could help everyone from bed-ridden patients to elite athletes, a team of American researchers—including 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario R. Capecchi—have created a "switch" that allows ...
Fat-regenerating 'stem cells' found in mice
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew ...
Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues.
Study shows new approach to prevent antibody-mediated damage in kidney transplants
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Early results from a Mayo Clinic research study demonstrate the effectiveness of a new approach to blocking an important part of the immune system that causes severe damage to some kidney transplants. Historically, these ...
Heart disease: Research off the beating patch
Jul 21, 2009 |
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It is an amazing sight: What looks like a tiny beating heart is actually a piece of synthetic, gauze-like mesh, barely the size of a fingernail, floating in a Petri dish. And yet it keeps squeezing away, nice ...
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