Tag: Brendon Baker
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Following the Fibers: Uncovering a Vascular Clue in Lung Fibrosis
A new study published in Advanced Science, led by Dr. Brendon Baker, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, examines a long-understudied participant in this process: the lung’s extensive network of blood vessels.
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Building a Better Heart Patch, Fiber by Fiber
Researchers at the University of Michigan Department of Biomedical Engineering (U-M BME) are working to engineer functional, living cardiac tissue grafts that can restore heart function.
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U-M BME Collaboration Sets New Standards in Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Beyond creating replacement tissues for patients, this technology also enables more physiologically relevant testing of pharmaceuticals and the detection of cardiotoxic compounds without requiring the use of animals.
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Pulling Together: Harnessing Intercellular Mechanical Forces to Build Capillaries
Engineering capillaries to form a multicellular network
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New treatments for deadly lung disease could be revealed by 3D modeling
Traditional 2D research may rule out better treatment options.
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Speedy “slingshot” cell movement observed for the first time
New findings suggest it might one day be possible to direct healthy cells to advance tissue repair therapies.