Tag Archives: tissue regeneration
DARPA wants machine to suck all your blood out, other fun stuff
DARPA‘s budget for next year includes funding for all kinds of wild new medical technologies for military medicine, from electromagnetic tissue regeneration to a machine that can suck your blood out, clean it, and then fill you back up. DARPA … Continue reading
Newborn heart muscle can grow back by itself
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely. Researchers, working with mice, found that a portion of the heart removed during the first week after birth grew back wholly and correctly … Continue reading
US Pentagon funds technology that uses a patient’s own skin cells to generate living, tissue-engineered skin
A biotechnology company just got a cool $18 million from the US Defense Department for its PermaDerm™ product – an engineered skin substitute grown from a patient’s own skin cells! Regenicin Inc., a New York unit of the Lonza Group, … Continue reading
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Woman gets new windpipe grown from her own stem cells
In a pioneering operation, a British teenager has received a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells and has now been discharged after the procedure in Italy. This actually saved her life as she was suffering from a rare … Continue reading
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Biotechnology Company Receives Grant to Develop Regenerative Membrane for Oral Surgery
Agenta Biotechnologies, Inc., a private biotechnology company, announced that it has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIH/NIDCR) for the further development of a biologically activated membrane … Continue reading
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Biosynthetic cornea stimulates regeneration in damaged eye tissue
A recent study from researchers in Canada and Sweden has shown that biosynthetic corneas can help regenerate and repair damaged eye tissue and improve vision in humans. This study is important because it’s the first to show that an artificially … Continue reading
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Discovery in Salamanders Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration
By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs. Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the … Continue reading
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Reverse Aging of Human Muscle Tissue
In this article, we re-examine a study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley that had identified critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the researchers were able to turn back the … Continue reading
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