New drug triggers tissue regeneration: Faster regrowth and healing of damaged tissues
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
The concept sounds like the stuff of science fiction: take a pill, and new tissues grow to replace damaged ones. Researchers have now announced steps toward turning this idea into reality. They have detailed how a new drug repaired damage to the colon, liver and bone marrow in animal models -- even saving mice who would have died in a bone marrow transplantation model.