Rat Limb Grown in the Lab
Now this is a true game changer. Can you imagine?
From the article:
"When electrically stimulated, the muscle fibers contracted with a strength 80 percent of what would be seen in newborn animals. What’s more, the blood vessels filled with blood.
“We have shown that we can maintain the matrix of all of these tissues in their natural relationships to each other, that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature,” said Harald Ott, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery and the Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior author of the research paper, which appeared in this week’s journal Biomaterial."
God, I love science and research.
From the article:
"When electrically stimulated, the muscle fibers contracted with a strength 80 percent of what would be seen in newborn animals. What’s more, the blood vessels filled with blood.
“We have shown that we can maintain the matrix of all of these tissues in their natural relationships to each other, that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature,” said Harald Ott, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery and the Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior author of the research paper, which appeared in this week’s journal Biomaterial."
God, I love science and research.
