Engineers grow functioning human muscle from skin cells

(Duke University) Duke engineers have grown the first functioning human muscle from non-muscle cells -- skin cells reverted to their primordial stem cell state. The ability to start from cellular scratch using non-muscle tissue will allow scientists to grow far more muscle cells, provide an easier path to genome editing and cellular therapies, and develop individually tailored models of rare muscle diseases for drug discovery and basic biology studies.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news