'Bionic' Nerve To Repair Damaged Limbs and Organs

University of Manchester researchers have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells -- and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life. In a study published in October's Experimental Neurology, Dr Paul Kingham and his team at the UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration (UKCTR) isolated the stem cells from the fat tissue of adult animals and differentiated them into nerve cells to be used for repair and regeneration of injured nerves. They are now about to start a trial extracting stem cells from fat tissue of volunteer adult patients, in order to compare in the laboratory human and animal stem cells.

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Go Manchester!

[Anonymous Coward]

Cheers, mates!

Re:Go Manchester!

[iamdjsamba]

Now, being at Manchester university, this is obviously great and all that (if nothing more than proof they're actually doing something with my tuition fees). But what I want to know is, why can we do this, yet I *still* can't register my module choices properly in the backwards campus solutions software :)

this guys really got on my NERVES.

[koduck]

Can they fix it?