For all that Johnson & Johnson seems to have been able to create over the years, a Band-Aid to mend a broken heart is, unfortunately, not one of them. Not to knock a great company, but more to highlight some recent incredible achievements in the field of bio-engineering and medicine.
Research done by David Stout, a biomedical engineering PhD student in the lab of Dr. Thomas Webster of Brown University, may serve to fill in this hole in our hearts – literally. His work, published in Acta Biomaterialia, explains the creation of a nanopatch, veritable band-aid, for the heart.
Stem cells seem to be at the forefront of endless avenues of controversy these days, but the promise that they could hold for treatment of a range of diseases, often gets lost in the shuffle. The debate, of course, comes in when discussing the use and study of embryonic stem cells, for obvious reasons. However, not all “stem cell research” should get slapped with the connotations that embryonic research is saddled with. Plenty of amazing work is being done to investigate stem cell therapeutics in a range of contexts, and here I present a promising preclinical study that was published in 
