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February 03, 2010

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For heart disease patients with damaged arteries, doctors typically use stents to open blocked blood vessels, but the treatment requires surgery, and not all damaged areas are well suited to stents. Watch this videocast to find out about new research to develop "nanoburrs" that find damaged tissue and deliver medicine to it, broadening the possibilities for non-invasive treatment.