"In this study, we're trying to see how mechanobiology could help
researchers and clinicians make better diagnosis of the thrombotic
risks, especially the risk of arterial thrombosis that are closely
associated with cardiovascular diseases," says Dr. Yunfeng Chen, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Texas Medical Branch.
Chen and fellow researchers developed a new method of assessing patient blood by running it through a miniaturized device that mimics narrowed arteries can help characterize the patient’s risk factors for developing blood clots in the arteries. Their research was recently published in Nature.
Researchers examined how each patient’s blood behaves when subject to physical forces at work inside narrowed arteries. Arterial thrombosis, which describes the formation of disease-causing blood clots in the artery, is one of the leading causes of death and serious illness worldwide.
Chen talks about the device and its uses in the following video.
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