{"id":182682,"date":"2024-02-14T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/valentines-day-2024-scientists-create-gel-to-mend-broken-hearts-how-does-it-work"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:08:26","slug":"valentines-day-2024-scientists-create-gel-to-mend-broken-hearts-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/valentines-day-2024-scientists-create-gel-to-mend-broken-hearts-how-does-it-work","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day 2024: Scientists create gel to mend broken hearts \u2014 How does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/valentines-day-2024-scientists-create-gel-to-mend-broken-hearts-how-does-it-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created a wood pulp hydrogel to strengthen anti-cancer medications and restore damaged cardiac tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Now that they have created a novel hydrogel that can be utilised to repair damaged heart tissue and enhance cancer therapies, you can cure a broken heart on Valentine\u2019s Day, according to SciTech Daily.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Elisabeth Prince, a researcher in chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, collaborated with scientists from Duke University and the University of Toronto to design a synthetic material that is made of wood pulp-derived cellulose nanocrystals. The material\u2019s unique biomechanical qualities are recreated by engineering it to mimic the fibrous nanostructures and characteristics of human tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created a wood pulp hydrogel to strengthen anti-cancer medications and restore damaged cardiac tissue. Now that they have created a novel hydrogel that can be utilised to repair damaged heart tissue and enhance cancer therapies, you can cure a broken heart on Valentine\u2019s Day, according to SciTech Daily. Dr Elisabeth Prince, a researcher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}