{"id":71934,"date":"2017-08-15T22:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/breakthrough-device-heals-organs-with-a-single-touch"},"modified":"2017-08-15T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:02:52","slug":"breakthrough-device-heals-organs-with-a-single-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/breakthrough-device-heals-organs-with-a-single-touch","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMQ51Kj2tS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State\u2019s College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient\u2019s own body. This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or restore function of aging tissue, including organs, blood vessels and nerve cells.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/regenerative+medicine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">regenerative medicine<\/a> study published in the journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 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,\u201d said Dr. Chandan Sen, director of Ohio State\u2019s Center for Regenerative Medicine &amp; Cell Based Therapies, who co-led the study with L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering with Ohio State\u2019s College of Engineering in collaboration with Ohio State\u2019s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-08-breakthrough-device.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;08-breakthrough-device.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State\u2019s College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient\u2019s own body. This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or restore function of aging tissue, including organs, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,269,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71934","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}