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Scientists report developing injectable gels to prevent heart failure caused when the heart's walls thin out, the organ becomes enlarged, and scar tissue forms.

A new MRI technology creates images resolved enough to enable consistent diagnoses across populations for the first time.

Scientists are pushing the limits of a super-resolution microscopy technique, opening new pathways to illuminating individual cell processes in living tissue.

Engineers have developed a technique to make artificial arteries that produce biochemical signals vital to their natural functions.

Researchers are using network science to gain new insights into 'subfailure' ligament injuries.

Engineers have modified the cotton candy machine to create complex microfluidic networks that mimic the capillary system in living tissue.

The material can be used to make medical devices with intrinsic healing properties, which could reduce tissue damage.

Life-science imaging broke barriers this year, as scientists built upon microscopy approaches to peer ever deeper into living tissues. In October, Purdue University’s Ji-Xin Cheng and colleagues reported they had greatly increased the speed of collecting images—from minutes to seconds—using in vivo vibrational spectroscopic imaging, a technique that obviates the need for fluorescence.