Growing Human Tendons in the Lab
January 6, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
Add tendons to the increasing list of human tissue that now have been grown outside the body. The Australian company, Orthocell Ltd. (Murdock, Western Australia) announced in November that it had grown autologous tenocytes for implantation in its laboratory. There are no details mentioned about how they accomplished this, but presumably it involved a donor’s tissue specimen, with added pluripotent stem cells, and a medium of growth factors cultured together in a bioreactor. MORE
Image Credit: Tendon Regeneration Project