An Astounding Medical Breakthrough In Regenerative Medicine

conradsuperb (67)in #health • 7 years ago (edited)

The field of medicine is ever-changing and always adapting to new and emerging threats that we are constantly faced with. We rely on our medical professionals and top notch scientists to find cures and treatment methods that are both safe and efficacious to keep us healthy.

Recently, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has discovered and is in the developmental stages of a new technology. This new breakthrough would potentially allow any cell type to be generated and reprogrammed for treatment within a patient's own body.

What is this new technology called you ask?

This new technology, as I have been informed, is called nanotransfection, or TNT for short. The hope is that TNT will be able to be deployed in order to restore function where there may be tissue or organ damage. Our bodies tissues and vital organs are usually associated as direct target sites for harmful pathogens or deleterious toxicants, so they can be quite easily compromised by traumatic events or other forms of degenerative ailments.

TNT may also be able to restore the function of aging tissue, including organs, blood vessels and even nerve cells. Injured or compromised organs could potentially be replaced using this nanochip technological breakthrough, and skin could be harvested for growing any cell type for an organ that may be failing.

This new technology is still in the early stages of development, where animal testing is currently underway. My fellow associates at the OSUMC are currently conducting laboratory testing on mice. Scientists were recently able to successfully reprogram animal skin cells to become vascular cells in badly injured legs of mice where blood flow seemed to be lacking.

Within a week, active blood vessels began to appear in the injured legs, and by week two, the injury had been completely saved. In other tests, this technology has also proven to reprogram skin cells in the live body into nerve cells that were injected into brain-injured mice in order to help them recover from minor stroke events.

OSU's medical team has also showed benefits in larger animal model systems as well, which gives high hopes for this sort of technology to potentially be translated to humans in the future.

With this technology, skin cells are converted into elements of any organ with just a single touch. A noninvasive process that takes less than a second and the chip does not remain in the body, but the reprogramming of the cell begins almost instantaneously.

TNT technology has two major components, the first of which is a nanotechnology-based chip designed to deliver cargo to adult cells in the live body. The second component is the design of specific biological cargo in order for cell conversion to be able to take place.

This cargo, when delivered using the chip, converts an adult cell from one type to another. The cargo is transported by delivering small electrical pulses to the device for approximately one-tenth of a second, which is nearly imperceptible to the patient. I have been informed that the team plans to start clinical trials to test this new technology in human burn and wound patients later this year, or in early 2019.

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170807120530.htm