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PhysioHeart on TV
We're proud to share that we had a second TV crew in our lab to record our PhysioHeart activities! This time, the dutch TV program "De Kennis van Nu" came over to record the revival of a heart outside the body for an episode of a scientific research on making more donor organs available in better tissue quality. Our visitors were amazed to see the PhysioHeart!
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Sterilizing blood for tissue culturing
Our team at LifeTec Group found a promising method to sterilize blood harvested from the slaughterhouse! This new way of making blood sterile will allow us to develop prolonged blood-perfused tissue and organ cultures and is an important step forward from the standard culture medium fluids!
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Haermonics back on track
We are happy to report that Haermonics have secured new funding! Previously, LifeTec Group has developed a prototype sensor for Haermonics to detect blood in a saline solution used to flush the chest after cardiac surgery to prevent post-operative complications. We hope that our sensor concept will soon be used to help patients recover from cardiac surgery.
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Coronary bypass without suturing
Coronary bypass without suturing
LifeTec Group is enjoying the collaboration in the exciting validation and training project SAFE-CAB, to help bring the ELANA Heart Bypass® procedure to clinical practice. The Cardiac BioSimulator is the perfect platform for clinical validation studies, but also as a training tool to provide hand-on experience to clinicians on this new technique!
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Introducing Virtual Presence @ LifeTec Group
Introducing Virtual Presence in LifeTec Group laboratories.
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Case: Carmat SA
"Carmat is the designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart. With this product, they aim to provide a therapeutic alternative for people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure."
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PAPER:
A new paper has been published by a clinical research group in the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, entitled: “Real-time photoacoustic assessment of radiofrequency ablation lesion formation in the left atrium".
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Paper: "Investigating the physiology of normothermic ex vivo heart perfusion ..."
We report on a study into the physiology of our PhysioHeart™ platform that was conducted to identify ideas to further improve our beating heart model.
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28th Annual meeting of the Netherlands society of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
The 21st and the 22nd of November LifeTec Group's Martina Puricelli will attend the 28th Annual meeting of the Netherlands society of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, in Lunteren.
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LifeTec Group and Biotest Facility aim to reduce animal testing
Medicine affects your body. That’s a good thing, that’s how it makes you feel better or even cures you, but most of the time the intended purpose is not the only effect: >>
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