The team developed a 3D-printed heart patch for intraventricular implantation to serve as an alternative to the bovine ...

The heart wall can rupture in severe cases, requiring immediate surgical intervention. Currently, bovine pericardial patches, ...

Scientists from ETH Zurich have 3D printed a special patch that can integrate into existing heart tissue to help repair ...

A heart attack cuts off blood flow and oxygen to heart tissue. This can damage muscle and, in severe cases, cause the heart ...

ETH Zurich researchers 3D print heart patch using a hydrogel populated with heart muscle cells. It has already been implanted in animals.

Scientists based in Switzerland have invented a tissue-engineered cardiac patch that can help heal a broken heart. Their groundbreaking piece of bio-engineering won't solve your love woes, but the ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has ...

In this study, we investigated how ectopic arrhythmias can be induced by external stimuli in cardiac tissue containing a localised area of depolarisation. Using optogenetic in vitro experiments and in ...

Similarly, where space is occupied by fat cells, muscle fibers cannot grow. Notably, without any hampering of the fat cells' growth, the fat tissue ultimately took up 12% of the whole muscle tissue.