In regenerative medicine, the ideal repair material would offer properties that seem impossibly contradictory. It must be rigid and robust enough to be manipulated surgically, yet soft and porous ...

Fibrin plays a major role in stopping bleeding and healing wounds. However, if fibrin is formed in excess, e.g., in chronic wounds, thrombosis and subsequent vascular occlusions can occur. Therefore, ...

This scanning electron micrograph of a blood clot -- taken from the coronary artery of somebody who had a heart attack -- might be scary if it weren't so cool. Look closely: The brown mesh is a wiry ...

Fibrin formed as a result of fibrinogen polymerization is the main protein component of a clot in a test tube and intravascular thrombi in vivo. Fibrin clot structure characterized by fiber diameter ...

An antibody to the blood-clotting protein fibrin leaves coagulation alone but blocks the ensuing inflammatory cascade. Scientists led by Katerina Akassoglou, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, ...

“Clot-busting” fibrinolytic drugs are administered to patients who have had a heart attack or ischemic stroke. These drugs are delivered systemically or, when possible, locally through a catheter ...