Professor documents cancer battle in online videos
(AP) -- At first, David Oliver ignored the bump on his neck that he noticed while shaving. The medical school professor assumed it was calcified scar tissue from a previous surgery.
View ArticleMount Sinai first to use visually guided catheter ablation system to treat...
For the first time in a new U.S. clinical trial, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have used the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) to correct abnormal electrical signals inside...
View ArticleTransforming scar tissue into beating hearts: The next instalment
The latest research developments to reprogram scar tissue resulting from myocardial infarction (MI) into viable heart muscle cells, were presented at the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2012...
View ArticleIn breakthrough study damaged mouse hearts regenerated by transforming scar...
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes today are announcing a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacksby converting scar-forming cardiac...
View ArticleFibroblasts reprogrammed into functioning heart cells in mice
(HealthDay) -- Cells that normally form scar tissue after a heart attack can be reprogrammed into functional heart cells in mice, according to an experimental study published online April 18 in Nature.
View ArticleKidney transplanted twice in two weeks
For the first time, a kidney that had been donated to a patient in need was removed and implanted into a new patient, the third individual to have the organ, after it failed in the first transplant...
View ArticleScar tissue turned into heart muscle without using stem cells
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown the ability to turn scar tissue that forms after a heart attack into heart muscle cells using a new process that eliminates the need for stem...
View ArticlePause paunch and halt hair loss
A new discovery showing how hair growth activated fat tissue growth in the skin below the hair follicle could lead to the development of a cream to dissolve fat.
View ArticleAfter skin cancer, removable model replaces real ear
(HealthDay)—During his 10-year struggle with basal cell carcinoma, Henry Fiorentini emerged minus his right ear, and minus the hearing that goes with it. The good news: Today, the 56-year-old IT...
View Article'Beneficial inflammation' may promote healing in pulmonary fibrosis
Inflammation has long been considered an integral part of the biological process that leads to deadly scarring in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. New research at National Jewish Health, however,...
View ArticleSome pancreatic cancer treatments may be going after the wrong targets, study...
New research represents a significant change in the understanding of how pancreatic cancer grows – and how it might be defeated.
View ArticleBreakthrough drug-eluting patch stops scar growth and reduces scar tissues
Scars—in particular keloid scars that result from overgrowth of skin tissue after injuries or surgeries—are unsightly and can even lead to disfigurement and psychological problems of affected patients....
View ArticleTreatment shows promise in fighting fibrotic disease
A decade after first identifying serum amyloid P (SAP) as a key protein in human blood that controls routine tissue-related processes from scarring to healing, two Texas A&M University scientists...
View ArticleAnimal study holds promise for treating diabetic ulcers and burns
A combination of two drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for different applications reduces wound healing time by one-quarter and significantly decreases scar tissue in mice...
View ArticleStudy offers clues to how breast implants may cause lymphoma
(Medical Xpress)—There have been 71 known cases worldwide of a type of blood cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) that the researchers suggest were associated with the patient's breast...
View ArticleOrchestrating the healing process in a damaged cornea
It is safe to say that the eye is an amazing biological system. One reason is its keratocyte cells—specialized cells that make up the bulk of the cornea. Unlike most of the other cells in our body,...
View ArticleResearchers boost the heart's natural ability to recover after heart attack
Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that cells called fibroblasts, which normally give rise to scar tissue after a heart attack, can be turned into endothelial cells, which...
View ArticleThe cellular origin of fibrosis: Team identifies rare stem cells that give...
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...
View ArticleCell therapy trial offers new hope to liver disease patients
Liver disease patients could be helped by a new cell therapy to treat the condition.
View ArticleGenetic marker may help predict success of kidney transplants
Kidneys donated by people born with a small variation in the code of a key gene may be more likely, once in the transplant recipient, to accumulate scar tissue that contributes to kidney failure,...
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