Stem cells levitated by sound might type easy miniature organs

When researchers used sound to levitate stem cells, they discovered that the cells fashioned into spheres. The tactic might be used for rising tissues for transplants

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Stem cells levitated with sound can spontaneously type spherical blobs. The method might be used to develop tissues or easy miniature organs with out researchers having to bodily manipulate cells and doubtlessly disrupt them within the course of.

Engineering or creating tissues for therapeutic use, like items of cartilage for knee restore, is difficult. The chemical compounds and forces used to coax cells into the specified form can impair their operate as soon as implanted. Mauricio Hoyos on the French Nationwide Centre for Scientific Analysis (CNRS) and his colleagues found …