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A research team at Washington University in St. Louis has combined a nanoparticle platform used in imaging growing blood vessels and combined it with the fungal drug fumagillin to create a new Read more...

A researcher at Florida State University College of Medicine has been studying mutant human proteins that could spur the body to develop new blood vessels, offering a radical new approach to treating Read more...

A team of scientists led by British Nobel laureate Sir Aaron Klug has advanced a new approach to gene therapy. The team has designed zinc-fingered nucleases that can recognize a specific sequence of Read more...

Activating the Robo4 protein in mice helped them to develop working blood vessels and ward off the kind of common physical damage that leads to blindness. And the work may point to new therapies for Read more...

Starting off with a batch of donor cells, researchers at Humacyte have developed a collagen matrix from which the cells are then extracted, leaving an 'acellular' material that can be used to craft Read more...

Stem Cell Research A group of South Korean scientists used embryonic stem cells to create blood vessels that were later successfully grafted into animals suffering from ischemia. This approach could Read more...

Scientists at Manchester University have grown new peripheral nerves by using stem cells extracted from fat, and they are suggesting that the new therapy may be available to patients in as little as Read more...

Children's Hospital Boston has also been the center of new cardiovascular research. Another team there developed a patch that dispatches the growth stimulating protein periostin to damaged areas of Read more...

Using adult stem cells extracted from bone marrow, scientists at the University of Buffalo have grown new blood vessels and successfully tested them in sheep. In addition to contracting and dilating, Read more...

Northwestern University researcher Samuel Stupp has presented the results of a study in which he injected nanomaterials into the severed spinal cords of mice, allowing them to walk again after several weeks of therapy. The nanomaterials he used were designed to self-assemble into nanofibers which repaired damaged neurons. The research offers new insights into the near-term research potential of nanotechnology and offers hope for patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's who suffer from …

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