Bone repair using patient's stem cells comes closer
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Hitherto it has been difficult to induce adult human stem cells to produce bone, e.g. in order to repair bone tissue. Researchers at the University of Twente have shown that if the enzyme PKA is previously activated in the stem cells in the lab, following implantation this results in substantial bone formation...
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