Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch: Device instantly delivers new DNA or RNA into living skin cells to change their function

 Researchers at The Ohio State University  Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State's College of Engineering have  developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can  generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient's  own body. This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or  restore function of aging tissue, including organs, blood vessels and  nerve cells. 

Results of the regenerative medicine study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. "By using our novel nanochip technology, injured or compromised  organs can be replaced. We have shown that skin is a fertile land where  we can grow the elements of any organ that is declining," said Dr.  Chandan Sen, director of Ohio State's Center for Regenerative Medicine  & Cell Based Therapies, who co-led the study with L. James Lee,  professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering with Ohio State's  College of Engineering in collaboration with Ohio State's Nanoscale  Science and Engineering Center. Researchers studied mice and pigs in these experiments. In the study,  researchers were able to reprogram skin cells to become vascular cells  in badly injured legs that lacked blood flow. Within one week, active  blood vessels appeared in the injured leg, and by the second week, the  leg was saved. In lab tests, this technology was also shown to reprogram  skin cells in the live body into nerve cells that were injected into  brain-injured mice to help them recover from stroke.

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