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This Biodegradable Patch Could Help the Heart Repair After a Heart Attack
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There are many medications to calm the heart inflammation that follows these episodes, but none of them could target the heart without causing side effects in the rest of the body. There is the interest of this patch.
The heart is the body's engine. That's why a research team at MIT designed a patch capable of reducing fibrosis, promoting cell survival, and strengthening blood vessel growth. Heart health goes hand in hand with advances in medical science. In research led by bioengineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and published in the journal Cell Biomaterials, they developed a drug delivery patch that is placed over the heart—after a h…
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