Biomedical Engineering

Researchers' findings from Japan and the United States advance biomedical engineering research

Published in Blood Weekly, July 6th, 2006

Investigators in Japan and the United States have published new biomedical engineering data.

Study 1: Transplanted Bioengineered myocardial tissue grafts may improve damaged heart function.

According to a recently published report from Japan, "For the reconstruction of 3-dimensional (3D) tissues, we exploited an original method of tissue engineering that layers individual cell sheets harvested from temperature-responsive culture dishes.

"Stacked cardiomyocyte sheets demonstrated electrical and morphologic communication, resulting in synchronously beating myocardial tissue. When these bioengineered 3D tissue grafts are transplanted...

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