Source: Havard University Gazette / Harvard News Office
Date: March 2, 2006
Summary:
A new approach for transplanting cells shows promise for regenerating injured and diseased tissues and whole organs. Such biological engineering, which once excited the medical community, has been fraught with the difficulties of keeping transplanted cells alive and getting them to integrate with a host's body. Researchers at Harvard University's Department of Engineering and Applied Science may have solved these problems. The strategy successfully heals lacerated muscles in mice, but the potential exists for applying it to a wide variety of situations in humans, including treatment of muscular dystrophy, heart disease, and some brain disorders, and to regenerate bone.
