{"id":153081,"date":"2022-12-17T23:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T05:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/cellular-glue-can-regenerate-tissues-heal-wounds-and-regrow-nerves"},"modified":"2022-12-17T23:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T05:24:58","slug":"cellular-glue-can-regenerate-tissues-heal-wounds-and-regrow-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/cellular-glue-can-regenerate-tissues-heal-wounds-and-regrow-nerves","title":{"rendered":"Cellular \u2018glue\u2019 can regenerate tissues, heal wounds and regrow nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cellular-glue-can-regenerate-tissues-heal-wounds-and-regrow-nerves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UC San Francisco (UCSF)<\/a> have engineered molecules that act like \u201ccellular glue,\u201d allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. This discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought goal of regenerative medicine [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05622-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Longevity. Technology: Adhesive molecules are found naturally throughout the body, holding its tens of trillions of cells together in highly-organised patterns. They form structures, create neuronal circuits and guide immune cells to their targets. Adhesion also facilitates communication between cells to keep the body functioning as a self-regulating whole.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Now a new study, published in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05622-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature<\/a><em>, details how the researchers engineered cells containing customised adhesion molecules that bound with specific partner cells in predictable ways to form complex multicellular ensembles.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like \u201ccellular glue,\u201d allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. This discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought goal of regenerative medicine [1]. Longevity. Technology: Adhesive molecules are found naturally throughout the body, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}