Scientists Invented A Tool To ‘eat Away’ The Plaque That Causes Heart Disease
Scientists at Michigan State University and Stanford University recently announced a promising new treatment for heart disease: Tiny nanoparticles that can eat away at the plaque within blood vessels, reducing the risk of a heart attack. Nanoparticles are extremely tiny particles, measuring less than 100 nanometers, that can be engineered
Posted — Updated“We found we could stimulate the macrophages to selectively eat dead and dying cells … that are part of the cause of heart attacks,” Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan State, told Science Daily. “We could deliver a small molecule inside the macrophages to tell them to begin eating again.”
Smith, the biomedical engineering professor at Michigan State, is optimistic. He’s already filed a provisional patent.
“It gives a particular energy to our future work,” Smith said of their lab results in Science Daily. “We believe it is better than previous methods.”
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