Regenerative medicine is the process of repairing and healing irreparable tissues and organs. Creating designer tissues and organs, injecting stem cells, and stimulating bodily repair mechanisms have allowed scientists to combat Parkinson’s as well as repair bone injuries. Read more about breakthroughs in regenerative medicine at SciTechDaily.com.
Advances in bioengineering could lead to more naturally appearing outcomes in reconstructive surgery, suggests an international team of researchers. Researchers have discovered that fat tissue…
Scientists develop a gel derived from wood pulp to repair damaged heart tissue and improve cancer treatments. You can mend a broken heart this Valentine’s…
At least 8% of the human genome is genetic material from viruses. It was considered ‘junk DNA’ until recently, but its role in human development…
In the journal Circulation, the authors reveal an exciting new avenue of study for repairing damaged hearts. Think of them as the Energizer Bunnies of…
Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a novel material with the potential to revolutionize the way human tissue can be grown in the lab and…
A More Effective Experimental Design for Engineering a Cell Into a New State MIT and Harvard researchers have developed a novel computational technique that can…
Guiding cells to natural target region key to functional recovery. In a new study in mice, a team of researchers from the University of California,…
Scientists at .NeuroRestore, Switzerland, report in Science that they have developed a gene therapy that was proven in mice to stimulate nerve regrowth across spinal…
Researchers have demonstrated the potential to heal injured lung tissue in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients using their own lung cells for the first…
In a pioneering study, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine, and MIT have introduced a chemical method for reversing cellular aging. This revolutionary…
Scientists from UCL, MRC LMB, and AstraZeneca have found a compound, named ‘1938’, that boosts nerve regeneration after injury and shields heart tissue from significant…
Researchers have developed an intracellular toolkit to study organelle communication and diversity within stem cells, combining rapid proteomic imaging, immunofluorescence techniques, and spatial transcriptomics. This…
This light-activation technology has potential applications in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and understanding how the body works. Scientists have developed light-activated SpyLigation, a method using…
Synthetic Molecules that Adhere Cells Could Galvanize Regenerative Medicine Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular…
The results suggest a change in perspective of how regeneration could work in human medicine. Ken Muneoka has a history of shaking up the field…
A stem cell study presents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formation in…
Neurodegenerative diseases cause neuronal damage and destruction, wreaking havoc on both mental and physical health. Parkinson’s disease, which affects over 10 million people worldwide, is…
‘We have overcome a major hurdle’ to restore hearing, investigators say. Gene discovery allows the production of inner or outer ear hair cells Death of…