HTTP:: Stem Cells in Sutures Enhance Healing
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Experts have recently hinted at a new way of ensuring a fast and complication-free healing process when sutures are involved. Biomedical engineering students from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have embedded patients' own adult stem cells into the wires they used for sutures, a feat that they say would ensure a faster healing process, as the stem cells will differentiate into the most appropriate type of tissue when they are placed near the wound. They designed the technique especially for orthopedic procedures such as ruptured tendons, which are notoriously difficult to handle and treat.The creators of the new method believe that the system could be implemented in humans within five years, which is fairly short, as far as new, still-experimental treatments go. Their preliminary work was conducted on animal models, which seemed to handle the procedure remarkably well. For its work, the ten-student team won the first place in the Design Day 2009 competition, set up by th!
e JHU Department of Biomedical Engineering. Its work was sponsored by Maryland-based medical technology company Bioactive Surgical Inc.“Using sutures that carry stems cells to the injury site would not change the way surgeons repair the injury, but we believe the stem cells will significan...
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