cellular biology

A new 'heart attack on a chip' could serve as a test bed for developing personalized drugs

A new ‘heart attack on a chip’ could serve as a test bed for developing personalized drugs

Researchers from the Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California have developed a “heart attack on a chip,” a device that could one day serve as a test bed for developing new heart drugs and even personalized drugs. “Our device replicates some key features of a heart attack in …

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New clues to a serious neurodegenerative disease

New clues to a serious neurodegenerative disease

Dementia encompasses a range of neurodegenerative diseases that lead to memory loss and cognitive impairment and affect some 55 million people worldwide. Yet despite its prevalence, there are few effective treatments, in part because scientists still don’t understand exactly how dementia arises at the cellular and molecular level. Now a team led by scientists from …

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