A Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cell
February 7, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
University collaborators in North Carolina and Henan, China have created a synthetic cardiac stem cell that has functioned as hoped in tissue culture and animal studies. The team “. . . fabricated a cell-mimicking microparticle (CMMP) from poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) or PLGA, a biodegradable and biocompatible polymer. The researchers then harvested growth factor proteins from cultured human cardiac stem cells and added them to the PLGA. Finally, they coated the particle with cardiac stem cell membrane.” The cells located and functioned properly and showed no evidence of immune rejection so far. MORE
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