MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: WITH A NEW APPROACH, THE SCAR TISSUE (PICTURED) THAT USUALLY DEVELOPS AROUND MEDICAL IMPLANTS HAS A MORE ALIGNED ARCHITECTURE THAT ALLOWS DRUGS TO PASS THROUGH MORE EASILY. CREDIT: COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS CAMBRIDGE, MA — Implantable devices that release insulin into the body hold promise as an alternative way to...
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA IMAGE: Researchers from the University of Tsukuba showed that cardiac scar tissue (fibroblasts) can be directly reprogrammed to heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) in mice. By treating mice post-heart attack with a virus carrying cardiac transcription factors, they found that new cardiomyocytes were formed by fibroblasts converting into cardiomyocytes as opposed to fibroblasts...
