Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions weakened by heart failure.
Category: Kidney Cancer
Stem cells give Stanford scientists a new window into the biology of a rare disease
Today, Stanford pediatric cardiologist Marlene Rabinovitch , MD, and her team published new research that advances their quest to understand a serious – and very puzzling – lung disease. They’re studying pulmonary arterial hypertension , which frequently leads to heart failure.