Bioengineer Kit Parker wants to build replacement hearts for children born with heart defects. Although that goal remains a long way off, Parker recently took a step in that direction by assembling a 1:250 scale model of the human left … Continue reading
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Journal Club: Bioengineers build a tiny heart ventricle to better understand heart disease and treatment
Categories: Cell Biology | Journal Club | Medical Sciences
Tagged arrhythmia, heart attack, heart defect, isoproterenol, stem cells, tissue engineering, ventricle
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Journal Club: A new take on why tumors develop drug resistance
Cancer’s notorious resistance to therapy is often explained as the result of natural selection of newly mutating cells. Cancer-killing drugs wipe out nearly all of a tumor’s cells, but random mutations may allow for drug resistance in some cells, and … Continue reading
Categories: Cell Biology | Evolution | Journal Club | Medical Sciences
Tagged cancer, drugs, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, stem cells, therapy, tumor
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