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(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim are seeking to restore complete cardiac function with the help of artificial cardiac tissue. They have succeeded in loading cardiac muscle cells onto a three-dimensional scaffold, created ...

Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists are seeking to restore complete cardiac function with the help of artificial cardiac tissue. They have succeeded in loading cardiac muscle cells onto a three-dimensional scaffold, created using the silk produced by a tropical silkworm.

These days people usually don't die from a heart attack. But the damage to heart muscle is irreversible, and most patients eventually succumb to congestive heart failure, the most common cause of death in developed countries.Stem cells now offer hope for achieving what the body can't do: mending broken hearts. Engineers and physicians at the University of Washington have built a scaffold that ...

A strong, stretchy material could provide a scaffold for growing organs or making wounds heal faster. A stretchy new fabric made by linking together the proteins found in muscle tissue could provide a scaffold for growing new organs. It could also be used as a coating for bandages to help wounds heal quickly and with less scarring. The fabric was made in the laboratory of Kevin Kit Parker , a ...

In a novel study, Australian researchers are using food thickener used in yoghurts and jellies to develop artificial muscle. Nanotechnology graduate Cameron Ferris, and supervisor Dr. Marc in het Panhuis, of the University of Wollongong, have developed a scaffold with the help of gellan gum—a biopolymer produced by the bacteria Pseudomonas elodea—that can help get cells to grow into the right kind of tissue. “At home it’’s used as a food additive. You”ll find it in lots of yoghurts and jell