Experts from Canadian biotechnology company Evolved.Bio, based at the University of Waterloo, have developed a method for producing and regenerating muscle tissue, designed to help people with severe muscle damage. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Advanced Functional Materials (AFM).
The scientists describe their technology as a frameless in vitro tissue modeling platform; This means that the new muscle is first grown in an artificial environment. The resulting biomaterials are then implanted into the patient’s body.
The platform uses cell sheets as building blocks, allowing various tissue samples to be reconstructed with appropriate structures and form factors.
According to the authors of the development, the method they created allows to avoid rejection of the resulting tissues by the body, due to which muscles created in vitro cannot be distinguished from muscles created naturally.
Scientists plan to use this technology to combat volumetric muscle wasting, an incurable disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people. This method can also be used in other areas, including the production of cultured animal meat.
Previous scientists was created The first drug of its kind for joint regeneration.
Source: Gazeta
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