News-Medical.netBiomedical engineering researchers aim to attack two banes of cardiovascular diseaseNews-Medical.netBiomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease -; heart failure after heart attacks and the scourge of r …

WCVB BostonGreg Turner Named Director of Engineering for Hearst Television's WCVB Channel 5WCVB BostonGreg Turner has been named Director of Engineering for Hearst Television's WCVB Channel 5. Turner's appointment was announced today by Bill Fi …

New biomedical engineering grants aim at heart failure and resistant high blood pressureEurekAlert (press release)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease -- heart failure after heart attacks and …

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at HarvardEurekAlert (press release)A team lead by Kevin Kit Parker, Ph.D. at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering recently developed a nanofiber fabrication tech …

EurekAlert (press release)Tissue engineering advance reduces heart failure in model of heart attackEurekAlert (press release)Besides Zhang and Ogle, co-authors of the paper, "Myocardial tissue engineering with cells derived from human induced-pluripot …

ReutersMarketsStocks stumble, but oil at three-month highsFinancial TimesThe All-World's pullback comes after it jumped 10.3 per cent off a two-and-a-half year low hit on February 12: a sharp bounce powered by more optimism over the pace of US growth; …

Time to rethink your vegetable oil?EurekAlert (press release)COLUMBUS, Ohio - Risk of heart disease and diabetes may be lowered by a diet higher in a lipid found in grapeseed and other oils, but not in olive oil, a new study suggests. Researchers at The Oh …

Engineering research offers hope for heart valve patientsMedical XpressBy studying the root causes of calcification and constructing new heart valves through tissue engineering—using cells to construct organic human tissue—Ferdous and her group aim to even …