Researchers Discover Novel Cell Type that Controls the Formation and Growth of New Blood Vessels

Molecular Code Stimulates Pioneer Cells to Build Blood Vessels in the Body

19-Apr-2024 - Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and myocardial infarction, are the world's leading causes of mortality, accounting for over 18 million deaths a year. A team of KIT researchers has now identified a new cell type in blood vessels responsible for vascular growth. This discovery may allow ...

HeartBeat.bio raises € 4.5 million in Pre-Series A financing

New funds to drive development of organoid screening platform for cardiac drug discovery

03-Nov-2023 - HeartBeat.bio AG, a biotech company building a highly scalable human organoid and AI-supported drug discovery platform for heart disease, announced the closing of a € 4.5 million Pre-Series A round co-led by i&i Biotech Fund, Invest AG, aws Gründungsfonds II, and Tensor Ventures. The financing ...

New computer vision system designed to analyse cells in microscopy videos

15-Feb-2022 - Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a system based on computer vision techniques that allows automatic analysis of biomedical videos captured by microscopy in order to characterise and describe the behaviour of the cells that appear in the images. These new ...

Towards a cell-based interceptive medicine in Europe

Diagnose diseases earlier and intercept disorders before irreparable damage occurs

09-Sep-2020 - Hundreds of researchers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are united by a vision of how to revolutionize healthcare. In a perspective in Nature and the LifeTime Strategic Research Agenda they now present a roadmap of how to leverage the latest scientific ...

Chemists design 'miniecosystems' to test drug function

21-Jun-2018 - Scripps Research scientists have solved a major problem in chemistry and drug development by using droplet-sized 'miniecosystems' to quickly see if a molecule can function as a potential therapeutic. As they report the new method will let researchers save critical time and funding by ...

Maelstroms in the heart

New, promising imaging technique for cardiac arrhythmias

23-Feb-2018 - Every five minutes in Germany alone, a person dies of sudden cardiac arrest or fibrillation, the most common cause of death worldwide. This is partly due to the fact that doctors still do not fully understand exactly what goes on in the heart during the occurrence. Until now, it was impossible to ...

Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes

22-Sep-2017 - While immune cells called neutrophils are known to act as infantry in the body's war on germs, a National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests they can act as medics as well. By studying rodents, researchers showed that instead of attacking germs, some neutrophils may help heal the brain ...

Transplanted hearts reveals risk gene for cardiovascular disease

14-Sep-2017 - In the largest transcriptome study to date, an international research team analysed the RNA of transplanted hearts and discovered a number of new risk factors for dilated cardiomyopathy and other heart conditions which could thus be recognised more easily in future. We know of many genes with ...

Discovery of a key regulatory gene in cardiac valve formation

24-May-2017 - Researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have identified a key regulator gene for the formation of cardiac valves - a process crucial to normal embryonic heart development. The heart is the first functional organ that develops in vertebrate embryos. In humans, it starts to beat ...

World's first total-body PET scanner takes a big step forward

19-Jan-2017 - The UC Davis-based EXPLORER consortium, which aims to build a revolutionary total-body PET (positron emission tomography) scanner, has announced the selection of two industry partners to help build the prototype device. They are United Imaging Healthcare America, a North American subsidiary of ...