Bioengineers reprogram muscles to combat degeneration
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
Mature muscle fibers were marked to glow green. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle. Moreover, they showed in mice that the newly reprogrammed muscle stem cells could be used to help repair damaged tissue.
