Spotlight on Regenerative Medicine

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The best healing is performed by our stem cells. Now the researchers recruit the body's own health workers to build up new healthy organs.    

Strategic research area in stem cells
Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine
Illustration Anders Kjellberg

Stem cells will build our health

The human body has an amazing ability to repair itself. Everyone knows that a skin cut quickly heals itself. The body can even handle quite large wounds with just a little help to hold together the edges of the wound, using a plaster or stitches.
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"We're close to a treatment now"

Outi Hovatta is an expert at cultivating embryonic stem cells.
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"We can make plasters for the heart"

Molly Stevens designs biomaterial that can repair the body.
Mansoureh Shahsavani, forskarstuderande, och Anna Falk, docent, institutionen för neurovetenskap. Foto: Stefan Zimmerman

"We have a model of the brain"

Anna Falk uses iPS cells to study diseases in the brain.
Cecilia Götherström

Unique stem cell brittle-bone study starts

Transplantation of stem cells into unborn babies with osteogenesis imperfecta. Dr Cecilia Götherström is leading this study.
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Trying to create recovery abilities

The salamander is a master at recreating parts of the body; lost limbs as well as parts of the heart and brain. András Simon wants to understand how it works.
Professor Sten Eirik Jacobsen. Foto: Bildmakarna

Normal and abnormal formation of blood cells

Stein Eirik Jacobsen is exploring the mechanisms and regulation of healthy blood formation and the causes of diseases of the blood, such as leukaemia.
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New tools to study the origin of embryonic stem cells

Researchers have identified cell surface markers specific for the very earliest stem cells in the human embryo. These cells are thought to possess great potential for replacing damaged tissue.

Stem-cell scarring aids recovery from spinal cord injury

According to a study published in Science (November, 2013) by Professor Jonas Frisén and colleagues at Karolinska Institutet, stem cell scarring aids recovery from spinal cord injury. Also visible in the film is doctoral students and coauthors Moa Stenudd and Hanna Sabelström.

News about regenerative medicine

Title Post date
Promising therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries 01 Mar 2018
Stem cell study may result in stronger muscles in old age 23 Feb 2018
New cell model could lead to treatments for neurological diseases 16 Feb 2018
Salamander genome gives clues about unique regenerative ability 22 Dec 2017
KI funding to promising researcher at NVS 27 Nov 2017
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Regenerative Medicine
17 Aug 2018 by Katarina Sternudd.