Remember when you were a kid and scraped your knee? Your mother probably poured hydrogen peroxide on the cut to clean it out. Well, now scientists have found that hydrogen peroxide may be responsible for regenerating tissue. Researchers at the University of Manchester have discovered that the molecule — a reactive oxygen species (ROS) — [...]
Muscle Fusion Discovery Could Help With Regeneration
January 14, 2013 By 1 Comment
Scientists have learned which proteins are involved in creating muscle cells after they fuse early stage cells. These findings from researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help in the understanding of how to repair and rehabilitate muscle that is damaged or underdeveloped because of disease. The research also could help scientists understand [...]
Heart Regeneration Mechanism Discovered
January 4, 2013 By 1 Comment
Texas scientists believe they have found the molecular mechanism that allows heart muscle to regenerate itself, a development that might be the key for therapies that heal tissue after a heart attack. Molecular biologists and cardiologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas found that microRNAs, which are small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression, [...]
Researchers Find Key to Muscle Regeneration
January 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Doctors or medical device manufacturers might be happy to learn that Spanish researchers have found an association within cells that could lead to treatments to regenerate muscle injuries or dystrophies. The discovery could be particularly beneficial for those suffering from genetic diseases, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a common muscular disorder in children. The disease [...]
Diagnostic Test Yields Quicker Results
November 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Bioengineers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Italian researchers have designed inexpensive medical diagnostic tests, by copying how nature uses mechanisms to sense the environment that take only a few minutes to conduct. The development could improve point-of-care devices for quick diagnoses of illnesses, such as sexually transmitted diseases, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and others. The [...]
Virginia Tech Scientists Help Isolate Fat Regulators
September 12, 2012 By 2 Comments
No one may ever need to get fat again, thanks to research conducted by scientists at Virginia Tech University. The keys to the discovery are tiny strands of RNA that regulate how our body burns fat and sugar. The researchers found that mice on high-fat diets were resistant to becoming obese when two mini-molecules called [...]
Study: Metal Stents Pose No Health Risks
April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A study of coronary patients with sensitivity to metal and who have received metal stents found that those patients did not experience any adverse health risk nor any allergic reaction to these medical devices, report the authors of the research at the Mayo Clinic. The study is the first to compare clinical reactions in patients [...]
UMass Researchers Develop New Medical Device for Cardiac Diagnoses
May 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Researchers at University of Massachusetts are building a new medical device that lets doctors measure blood pressure in real time as it goes through a patient’s arteries. The information it transmits helps doctors to assess the severity of blockages on the spot. This, in turn, could mean better and more timely treatments for patients. The [...]
