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Scientists develop a chip that can regenerate damaged tissue

Can it convert only specific target cells?

29-Sep-2017

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Tissue nanotransfection uses a chip to apply electric fields to individual cells.

Creates holes in the cell membranes through which DNA is injected in a controlled dosage.

Completely healed legs of mice that have been cut off blood supply due to severed artery.

Transformed cells secrete reprogramming materials in extracellular vesicles into deep tissues.

Technique is safe enough to begin human trials within a year.

Research by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, published in Nature Nanotechnology.

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Chandan Sen

Director of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering.

L. James Lee

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineer at the University of Ohio.

Nature Nanotechnology

A journal providing information from all aspects of nanoscale science and technology.

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