New device could heal organs with a touch
Scientists have developed a device that can convert skin
cells in the body into any other cell type with just a touch, an advance that may help repair injured tissues, blood vessels and nerves.
cells in the body into any other cell type with just a touch, an advance that may help repair injured tissues, blood vessels and nerves.
Researchers developed a new technology
called Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT) and tested it on mice and pigs.They
were able to re-programme skin cells to become vascular cells in badly
injured legs that lacked blood flow.
Within
a week, active blood vessels appeared in the injured leg, and by the
second week, the leg was saved. In lab tests, the technology was able to
re-programme skin cells in the live body into nerve cells that were
injected into brain-injured mice to help them recover from stroke.
"By
using our novel nanochip technology, injured or compromised organs can
be replaced. We have shown that skin is a fertile land where we can grow
the elements of any organ that is declining," said one of the researcher.
"This is difficult to
imagine, but it is achievable, successfully working about 98 per cent of
the time. With this technology, we can convert skin cells into elements
of any organ with just one touch," said the researcher."This process only takes
less than a second and is non- invasive, and then you're off. The chip
does not stay with you, and the reprogramming of the cell starts," he
said.
TNT technology has two major
components: a nanotechnology-based chip designed to deliver cargo to
adult cells in the live body; and the design of specific biological
cargo for cell conversion. This cargo, when delivered using the chip,
converts an adult cell from one type to another, said an assistant professor.
TNT
does not require any laboratory-based procedures and may be implemented
at the point of care. The procedure is also non-invasive.The cargo is
delivered by zapping the device with a small electrical charge that is
barely felt by the patient.
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