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posted by mrpg on Saturday January 13 2018, @11:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the science-is-cool dept.

Biomedical engineers have grown the first functioning human skeletal muscle from induced pluripotent stem cells.

The advance builds on work published in 2015 when researchers at Duke University grew the first functioning human muscle tissue from cells obtained from muscle biopsies. The ability to start from cellular scratch using non-muscle tissue will allow scientists to grow far more muscle cells, provide an easier path to genome editing and cellular therapies, and develop individually tailored models of rare muscle diseases for drug discovery and basic biology studies.

Sounds like an exciting time to be a bioengineer.


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  • (Score: 2) by jimbrooking on Sunday January 14 2018, @01:21AM (2 children)

    by jimbrooking (3465) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 14 2018, @01:21AM (#622033)

    would have been even more exciting if the stem cells had been taken from an Angus or Kobe steer! Mmmmmm!

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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday January 14 2018, @01:43AM (1 child)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday January 14 2018, @01:43AM (#622044) Journal

    would have been even more exciting if the stem cells had been taken from an Angus or Kobe steer! Mmmmmm!

    Why? Cannibalism without the ethical and legal issues!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @05:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @05:17PM (#623662)

      Maybe he's Jewish. You know they don't eat pork, right?