Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)are developing new methods to grow fully functional limbs arms for Macaque monkeys, a technique that could one day used on humans.
The technique was previously used to grow lungs, a beating heart and regenerate the arm of a rat. According to CNN, research lead and director of the organ repair and regeneration lab at MGH, Harald Ott, is now trialing the method on monkeys.
First, a scaffold of a monkeys arm is made by flushing out all the donor's cells inside with saline and detergents. The scaffold is rebuilt with progenitor cells obtained from humans that can be stimulated into becoming blood or muscle cells and more.
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The technique was previously used to grow lungs, a beating heart and regenerate the arm of a rat. According to CNN, research lead and director of the organ repair and regeneration lab at MGH, Harald Ott, is now trialing the method on monkeys.
First, a scaffold of a monkeys arm is made by flushing out all the donor's cells inside with saline and detergents. The scaffold is rebuilt with progenitor cells obtained from humans that can be stimulated into becoming blood or muscle cells and more.
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