For the first time, the first functional muscle cells in stem cells were created

Functional muscle tissue was first created from stem cells. The new achievement could be used in different areas and could be a new treatment for people with various muscular disorders.

Duke University specialists have created the first human skeletal muscle functional from pluripotent stem cells that can be transformed into any type of cell or tissue of the body. According to Futurism, the latest progress could help specialists get more insight into human biology.

"First of all, pluripotent stem cells are not muscle cells, but they can transform into all the cells existing in the human body," said Nenad Bursac, a professor of biomedicine at Duke University.

In the study, specialists created muscle fibers that responded to stimuli, such as electrical or chemical shocks similar to those produced by neural signals. When the tissue created in the laboratory was implanted in adult mice, the team found that they had been functioning for at least three weeks in the native tissue of the animal.

To create muscle tissue, specialists have pluped pluripotent stem cells from the skin or the blood of adults. The cells were then "reprogrammed" to be simple and undefined. Then they were treated with Pax7 molecules that led to their transformation into muscle tissue.

source:descopera.ro