Nanotechnology to be used for scanning hear failures

27 February 2010

Researchers are working hard to use nanotechnology for wide applications such as consumer electronics, energy, biotechnology, medicine etc. In a recent study European researchers studied the nanoscale scanning techniques, which could be utilized for better understanding of heart failure. The study will lead a suitable treatment for the people who suffer from this killer disease.

In the study, which has recently been submitted to Science Journal? Researchers from Imperial College London, UK and University of Wurzburg, Germany have used a technique known as scanning conductance microscopy (SICM) for studying the surface of healthy and weak rat hearts. As heart failure is a condition of heart’s inability to pump enough blood to the body needs and experts believe that using this technique, they can obtain better images of hearts cell’s surfaces.

Conventional technique uses a technique known as live microscopy for determining the damage on hearts surface, however using SICM researchers got very fine structures of cardiac muscle cells and at the same time they were also fully able to detect minute tubes, which carry electrical signals. Using the SICM, researchers were also able to get the detailed muscle’s cell surface in heart failure.

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