AlloSource Chosen as Healthcare Finalist in 2009 'Top Companies'
... non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures, ... before. The Company processed more than 4,150 tissue donors -- a 25% increase from 2007 -- whose gifts ... process and distribute human allograft tissue for our communities." A judging panel of ...PEAK Surgical Introduces PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM) TnA
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... Lifeline of Ohio, which promotes organ and tissue donation in central and southeastern Ohio, has ... organization responsible for promoting organ and tissue donation in central and southeastern Ohio, is ... and registering more than 30 new organ and tissue donors. Motorcycle enthusiasts in central Ohio ...Scientists Bioengineer New Teeth in Mice
... if they took bioengineered tooth "germs" -- tissue that holds the instructions to building a tooth ... More information The Pittsburgh tissue Engineering Initiative has more on tissue regeneration . SOURCES: ...World's First Cardiac Adult Stem Cell Patient Receives Infusion
... with his own cardiac stem cells into heart scar tissue using a minimally-invasive cardiac ... own atrium, the upper chamber of the heart. The tissue was then sent to Piero Anversa, of Harvard ... We hope to help the heart regenerate its own tissue and improve heart function." Bolli is ...St. Francis Surgeon Uses Tissue Regeneration Technology to Rebuild Patients' Heart Structures
... and repair cardiac structures, allowing heart tissue to re-grow inside the beating hearts of heart ... It opens the door to a new level of cardiac tissue reconstruction," said Gerdisch, director of ... reinforces and remodels the tissue. In the past, tissue replacement has been limited by options for ...ProFibrix Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial of its Lead Topical Hemostat Product Fibrocaps(TM)
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... residual obstructive intracranial blood flow may help expose thrombi to tissue plasminogen activator . Studies have shown that complete recanalisation ... Stroke Center See also Ultrasound Stroke tissue plasminogen activator ...Stem cell 'daughters' lead to breast cancer
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... BOSTON (July 21, 2009) Dental and tissue engineering researchers at Tufts University ... mimic human skin and the oral mucosa (the moist tissue that lines the inside of the mouth). The ... study is published online in advance of print in tissue Engineering Part A . "For the first time, we ...LSUHSC's Bazan awarded ARRA grant to preserve vision
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