Enhanced stem cells promote tissue regeneration
Engineers have boosted stem cells’ ability to regenerate vascular tissue (eg blood vessels) by using nanoparticles to equip them with genes that produce compounds that stimulate tissue growth. In mice, they successfully generated blood vessels near the site of an injury, allowing damaged tissue to survive.
More gene therapy to fix dodgy hearts, but with a different gene and this time using nanoparticles to transfer the gene into the cells.
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