Electronic
***** Seeded with Patient’s Own
Heart Cells for
Advanced Monitoring, Treatment of Cardiac Conditions
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Over the past few years we’ve covered a
number of
electronic *****es*designed to be biocompatible
with the human body to allow for long-term monitoring of various health parameters. We’ve also seen
scaffolds that can host cardiac
Cells to be used as material to repair
Heart tissue injured from events such as
Heart attacks.
At Harvard University a team of researchers has***w created a hybrid of these two tech**logies, resulting in*an
Electronic scaffold within which
Heart Cells can make home. The
Electronic grid within the device allows for measuring of electric current passing through, and the researchers were able to*build 3D electric maps of living animal hearts. Moreover, the same grid can be used to stimulate the
Heart in complex ways, in its current iteration providing 64 individually controlled electrode points where current can be delivered.
Simultaneous stimulation and monitoring using dense grids
Seeded with patients’ own
Heart Cells may one day allow cardiologists to offer therapy that will make existing pacemakers and other cardiac implants seem genuinely ancient.
Study in
Nature Na**tech**logy:
Three-dimensional mapping and regulation of action potential propagation in na**electronics-innervated tissues…
Via:*
Harvard…
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