Sentences with phrase «for tiny blood vessels»

To 3D print vessels on such a small scale — 100 microns, small enough for tiny blood vessels — Chen leveraged his connection to Innolign, a Boston biomedical technology company he helped found.

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The H5N1 strain causes tiny blood vessels throughout the body of a chicken, for example, to collapse.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

«Our tests indicate we can operate on tiny structures such as blood vessels without damaging them,» said Thomas Looi, the project director for one of the partners that developed KidsArm at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Centre for Image - Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) in Toronto, Canada.

Cambridge, Mass. — February 19, 2014 — A new bioprinting method developed at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University creates intricately patterned, three - dimensional tissue constructs with multiple types of cells and tiny blood vessels.

For example, he explains, smooth muscle cells grow thicker in large blood vessels like arteries, but similar type of contractile cells begin to die off in tiny blood vessels in the eye.

For the visitors, seeing a tiny embryo down a microscope was certainly interesting, but when the fluorescent light was turned on, revealing such things as red - labelled blood flowing through glowing green vessels, the exclamation heard was usually «wow»!

In a new study, scientists led by Selvi C. Jeyaraj of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a biological mechanism that may be responsible for icy extremities: an interaction between a series of molecules and receptors on smooth muscle cells that line the skin's tiny blood vessels.

He has watched the inflammation - producing proteins ADAM17 sets free into the bloodstream make a beeline for the heart, where they thicken and stiffen the walls of the tiny blood vessels that help feed the important muscle.

For example, the structural integrity of tiny blood vessels, the physical limits of synthetic tubing, the complex molecular exchange between fetus and placenta, and the often - poor outcomes of premature infants (despite receiving today's most cutting - edge interventions) all speak to the immeasurably complex science attending fetal viability outside the human womb.

Rutin is sometimes used therapeutically to strengthen capillaries (our tiny blood vessels) and so taken for things like varicose veins and haemorrhoids.

And thousands of blood vessels, from the large and powerful aorta to the tiniest capillaries, serve as the conduits for blood as it travels throughout the body.