Bioheart Makes Breakthrough In Critical Limb Ischemia Therapy With Stem Cells Obtained From Fat Tissue

Bioheart, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) offers yet another medical breakthrough with the next-level stem cell treatment for critical limb ischemia patients. The stem cells aid in promoting angiogenesis or the formation of new blood vessels and providing support for the healing of damaged blood vessels.

A Mobile Phone Or An MP3 Player Tells If You’re Sleeping Soundly

MSc (Tech) Väinö Virtanen has developed a method for analysing snoring sounds by using a PC with a microphone connection and a wireless microphone. The objective was to create an application that could be used at home to monitor snoring. By utilizing this technology, researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Helsinki [...]

Breakthrough Drug-Eluting Stent To Treat Peripheral Artery Disease Gains CE Mark

In a breakthrough development offering a truly modern, highly effective medical treatment for peripheral artery disease (PAD), physicians in the UK yesterday completed patient implants of the first CE Mark approved drug-eluting stent designed specifically to treat severe blockages in the challenging and largest artery in the leg.

Biological ‘Fountain Of Youth’ Discovered In New World Bat Caves

Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history – significantly longer lifespans. The discovery, featured on the cover of the July 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, shows that proper protein folding over time in long-lived bats explains why they [...]

Transplant Rejection: Two-Way Exchange Of Molecules Between Donor And Recipient

A new discovery by London biologists may yield new ways of handling the problem of transplant rejection. In a research article published in the November 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org/ ), the scientists confirm the two-way transfer of a molecule (called "MHC") that instructs the immune system to tell "self" from [...]