Bioengineers Reprogram Muscles to Combat Degeneration

[HysteryDiagnosis]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2011) — 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.


The newly reprogrammed muscle cells, shown here emitting green fluorescence, were injected into mice and successfully fused to make new muscle fibers and repair damaged tissue. (Credit: Image by Preeti Paliwal, UC Berkeley)