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Scientists Regenerate Rat Muscle Tissue
Zothecula writes Muscle lost through traumatic injury, congenital defect, or tumor ablation may soon be regenerated from within. A team of researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has shown how stem cells in the body of mice and rats can be mobilized to form new muscle in damaged regions. "Working to leverage the body’s own regenerative properties, we designed a muscle-specific scaffolding system that can actively participate in functional tissue regeneration," explains Sang Jin Lee, senior author on the study. This scaffold was implanted in the rats' tibialis anterior muscle (which is found below the knee), serving as a kind of home for the muscle progenitor cells to grow and develop.
That seems to be less than 1/2 of a solution. Nerve ending working in sync to create useful motion would be needed, no?
I've been regenerating my own muscle tissue for years. Don't skip leg day, son
Once we figure out rats we can then move on to pigs which share many traits with humans.
However once we can generate pig muscles then we can make an unlimited supply of bacon.
Now doesn't that sound good.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Being that the heart is it's own type of muscle, has it been confirmed if this would help regrow dead heart tissue from a heart attack damage?
Life is not for the lazy.