Spotlight on Regenerative Medicine
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.
Stem cells will build our health
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.
"We can make plasters for the heart"
"We can make plasters for the heart"
Molly Stevens designs biomaterial that can repair the body.
Stem cells can help repair spinal cord after injury
Stem cells can help repair spinal cord after injury
Spinal cord injury often leads to permanent functional impairment. In a new study published in the journal Science researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that it is possible to stimulate stem cells in the mouse spinal cord to form large amounts of new oligodendrocytes, cells that are essential to the ability of neurons to transmit signals, and thus to help repair the spinal cord after injury.
Normal and abnormal formation of blood cells
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.
"We have a model of the brain"
"We have a model of the brain"
Anna Falk uses iPS cells to study diseases in the brain.