regenerative-medicine
2 stories tagged "regenerative-medicine"
Brain & Aging
A Michigan Lab Grew a Living Skull Joint That Wouldn't Fuse. In Mice, It Held.
Craniosynostosis surgery reopens a fused infant skull; in some of the hardest cases it fuses right back and the child goes under the knife again. A triphasic scaffold kept the joint open in mice.
Drugs & FDAA heart-attack drug just regrew kidney tissue in mice, and the receipts have no pharma on them
A UCLA monoclonal antibody designed to help hearts heal after a heart attack also repaired injured kidneys in mice, and it was developed without a dollar of pharma money.