On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
In a new Nature Materials study, traction-force-activated payloads capture the body's own growth factors and release them when repairing cells pull on the scaffold. The work spans living bone and skin models and ex vivo human skin - a striking preclinical step, not yet a treatment for diabetic foot ulcers.
Amputated tissue from the sea cucumber Psolus fabricii healed its own wounds and kept living in plain, non-sterile seawater for more than three years. Jobson et al. in Science Advances on "natural tissue immortality" — and why a wound-healing surgeon can't look away.
A new review asks whether we can move from patching to regrowing — and what stands between lab-bench organoids and the clinic.
How Do We Delay Decay? In 2012, the Repair, Regeneration, and Replacement Revisited lecture posed a fundamental question: How do we delay the inevitable decline of the human body? Now, 13 years later, that question is more relevant than ever. With AI-driven health technologies, regenerative medicine, and bioengineered solutions, we stand at the edge of a new medical revolution. We revisit... Continue Reading →
