Keeping Stem Cells in Place for Heart Damage Repair
January 23, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
The previous piece is about protecting stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes so they survive when transplanted. This story adds another dimension—keeping those cardiomyocytes in their proper place. Researchers at the University of Bonn linked the stem cells with magnetic nanoparticles, and then used a magnet to locate and hold them in a damaged heart (during animal studies). MORE
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