30 March 2025
Excise and Customise
This study uses human mesenchymal (the embryonic origin of connective tissue) cell lines (immortal and unlimited lab-grown cells) as a surrogate supply of extracellular matrix – the molecules outside cells but influential in their functions and behaviour. Customising these cells by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing reveals biochemical components of the matrix that are important in bone tissue repair
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Sujeethkumar Prithiviraj and colleagues
- Cell, Tissue & Organ Engineering Laboratory, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund Stem Cell Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in eLife (reviewed preprint), January 2025
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