{"id":23644,"date":"2016-03-16T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T06:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cyborg-heart-patch-replaces-dead-cardiac-tissue-with-combination-of-healthy-cells-electronics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:50","slug":"cyborg-heart-patch-replaces-dead-cardiac-tissue-with-combination-of-healthy-cells-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cyborg-heart-patch-replaces-dead-cardiac-tissue-with-combination-of-healthy-cells-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg Heart Patch Replaces Dead Cardiac Tissue with Combination of Healthy Cells, Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyborg-heart-patch-replaces-dead-cardiac-tissue-with-combination-of-healthy-cells-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed a \u201ccyborg heart patch\u201d for replacing injured cardiac tissue. There has been considerable research on creating scaffolds seeded with cardiac cells, but simply delivering a bunch of cells in a neat package produces underwhelming results. The new patch developed at TAU integrates electronics alongside the cellular scaffold to both monitor and influence the activity of the cells.<\/p>\n<p>The device can record intercellular electrical activity and deliver pulses to make the cardiomyocytes contract to a defined beat. Additionally, the researchers demonstrated that the electrodes within the patch can be covered with drugs to provide controlled release of medication right to the nearby heart cells.<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly an impressive achievement that may herald a truly therapeutic approach for treating cardiac infarcts and other conditions of the heart.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/2016\/03\/cyborg-heart-patch-replaces-dead-cardiac-tissue-with-combination-of-healthy-cells-electronics.html\">http:\/\/www.medgadget.com\/2016\/03\/cyborg-heart-patch-replaces...onics.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed a \u201ccyborg heart patch\u201d for replacing injured cardiac tissue. There has been considerable research on creating scaffolds seeded with cardiac cells, but simply delivering a bunch of cells in a neat package produces underwhelming results. The new patch developed at TAU integrates electronics alongside the cellular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1694,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-electronics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23644","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67982,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23644\/revisions\/67982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}