Anti-inflammatory Molecules in Regenerative Medicine
December 9, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Eight years ago, Anthony Atala, at Wake Forest University, implanted the first laboratory grown bladders in children. As in most regenerative medicine techniques, stem cells are seeded onto a fabricated scaffold, which, in some cases, can provoke an immune system rejection of the regenerated tissue. This piece, from work done at Children’s Memorial Hospital (Chicago), reports that scaffolds can be coated with anti-inflammatory peptide amphiphiles which suppress the immune response until the substrate has dissolved. MORE
Image Credit: Wake Forest University