Category Biology/Biotechnology

An international research team found evidence that heart muscle can regenerate after heart failure in some people with artificial hearts. A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine — Tucson’s Sarver Heart Center found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure. The results were published in the journal Circulation.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

Westlake University in China and the California Institute of Technology have designed a protein-based system inside living cells that can process multiple signals and make decisions based on them.

The researchers have also introduced a unique term, “perceptein,” as a combination of protein and perceptron...

Pain is meant to be a defense mechanism. It creates a strong sensation to get us to respond to a stimulus and prevent ourselves from further harm. But, sometimes injuries, nerve damage, or infections can cause long-lasting, severe bouts of pain that can make daily life unbearable.

What if there was a way to simply turn off pain receptors? UNC School of Medicine researchers Bryan L. Roth, MD, Ph.D., the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, and Grégory Scherrer, PharmD, Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology and physiology and the UNC Neuroscience Center, have just proven that it is possible.

Using a tool designed by Roth in the early 2000s, the labs have created a new system that reduces acute and tissu...