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Rebuilding the human body, one petri dish at a time.
Wake Forest University researchers recently announced that they've successfully transplanted lab-grown muscle on the backs of injured mice. As we reported last week, here’s how they did it :
The mice implanted with new muscle strips showed a three times improvement in strength over the mice whose injured muscles were left unaddressed. The implanted cells appeared to speed up healing and prompt the development of new muscle tissue.
Photo: Eindhoven University of Technology/Bart van Overbeeke
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.comCaption by: Audrey Quinn
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