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Occluders for the left atrial appendage that are patient-specific, thus ensuring better fitting and potentially less complications, can be made by 3D-printing inflatable polymer devices on the basis of data derived from computed tomography scans.
Grafting platelet-derived nanovesicles onto the surface of cardiosphere-derived cardiac stem cells enables the cells to better engraft in infarcted tissue following systemic injection in rats and pigs.
Commensal microbes engineered to convert natural compounds found in cruciferous vegetables into molecules with anticancer properties prevent carcinogenesis and cause the regression of colorectal cancer in mice fed with a vegetable diet.
