Really? I had a heart attack?
A recent Harvard study, published in Circulation, found a surprising level of inconsistency between what medical records say about whether people had a heart attack and what they report themselves in...
View ArticleSpider fibers in smooth muscle cells
This image submitted by Thalita Abrahao won second place at the Postdoctoral Research Symposium Thursday. Abrahao, a postdoc in Kathy Griendling’s lab, is studying vesicle trafficking in vascular...
View ArticleHow white blood cells limit muscle regeneration
A paper from cardiologist Aloke Finn and colleagues (published Wednesday, Aug. 5 in Nature Communications) describes how the protein CD163, produced by macrophages, puts the brakes on muscle repair...
View ArticleRegenerative Engineering & Medicine highlights
Last week on Friday, Lab Land attended the annual Regenerative Engineering & Medicine center get-together to hear about progress in this exciting area. During his talk, Tony Kim of Georgia Tech...
View ArticleDeliver, but not to the liver
The potential of a gene-silencing technique called RNA interference has long enticed biotechnology researchers. It’s used routinely in the laboratory to shut down specific genes in cells. Still, the...
View ArticleTrio with Emory roots probing PTSD-hypertension links
This grant announcement from the American Heart Association caught Lab Land’s eye. All three of the scientists involved in this project, examining the connections between hypertension, inflammation and...
View ArticleThere will be microparticles (in stored blood)
More than 9 million people donate blood in the United States every year, according to the American Red Cross. Current guidelines say that blood can be stored for up to six weeks before use. What...
View ArticleCV cell therapy: bridge between nurse and building block
In the field of cell therapy for cardiovascular diseases, researchers see two main ways that the cells can provide benefits: *As building blocks – actually replacing dead cells in damaged tissues *As...
View ArticleEmory labs on LabTV
This summer, video producers from the web site LabTV came to two laboratories at Emory. We are pleased to highlight the first crop of documentary-style videos. LabTV features hundreds of young...
View ArticleAncient protein flexibility may drive ‘new’ functions
A mechanism by which stress hormones inhibit the immune system, which appeared to be relatively new in evolution, may actually be hundreds of millions of years old. A protein called the glucocorticoid...
View ArticleOxidative stress ain’t about free radicals, it’s about sulfur
This recent paper in Circulation, from Arshed Quyyumi and colleagues at the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, can be seen as a culmination of, even vindication for, Dean Jones’ ideas...
View ArticleRare inherited musculoskeletal disorder illustrates broader themes
More than fifteen years ago, Emory geneticist William Wilcox was a visiting professor in Montevideo, Uruguay. There he worked with local doctors, led by Roberto Quadrelli, to study a family whose male...
View ArticleACC 2016: Elevated troponin linked to mental stress ischemia
Some people with heart disease experience a restriction of blood flow to the heart in response to psychological stress. Usually silent (not painful), the temporary restriction in blood flow, called...
View ArticleACC 2016: Stem cell study sees improved heart failure outcomes
Patients with heart failure who received an experimental stem cell therapy experienced a reduced rate of death, hospitalization and unplanned clinic visits over the next year compared to a placebo...
View ArticleWhen cardiac risk biomarkers will become really useful (and save money?)
The news is awash in studies of cholesterol-lowering statins and a much-anticipated (and expensive) class of drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors. Clinical trials show that now-generic (and cheap) statins...
View ArticleFood deserts and cardiovascular risk
Heval Mohamed Kelli, MD got some attention at the American College of Cardiology meeting over the weekend with his work on food deserts — low-income areas distant from access to healthy food. As...
View ArticleFootball metabolomics
Following on the recent announcement of the Atlanta Hawks training center, here’s a Nov. 2015 research paper from Emory’s sports cardiologist Jonathan Kim, published in Annals of Sports Medicine and...
View ArticleFocal adhesions in Technicolor
Mouse embryonic fibroblasts forming focal adhesions Congratulations to Alejandra Valdivia, PhD, winner of the Best Image contest held as part of the Emory Postdoctoral Research Symposium, which takes...
View ArticleMicrogravity means more cardiac muscle cells
Cardiac muscle cells derived from stem cells could eventually be used to treat heart diseases in children or adults, reshaping hearts with congenital defects or repairing damaged tissue. Cardiomyocytes...
View ArticleStay out, stray stem cells
Despite the hubbub about pluripotent stem cells’ potential applications, when it comes time to introduce products into patients, the stem cells are actually impurities that need to be removed. That’s...
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