CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have engineered an enzyme that can gobble up scar tissue formed after spinal cord injuries in rats, overcoming a key hurdle to getting injured nerves to reconnect ...

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The National Cancer Institute Dictionary of Cancer Terms describes scare tissue in the following manner. “Fibrous tissue that forms when normal tissue is destroyed by disease, injury, or surgery. For ...

ETH scientists have developed a special protective membrane made of cellulose that significantly reduces the build-up of fibrotic tissue around cardiac pacemaker implants, as reported in the current ...