Science Translational Medicine – P.S. You Should Know…

Regrowing cartilage in a damaged knee gets closer to fixing arthritis.

January 20, 2022

“UConn bioengineers successfully regrew cartilage in a rabbit’s knee, a promising hop toward healing joints in humans, they report in the January 12 issue of Science Translational Medicine.” | learn more

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Tumor-killing cells with on-demand self-destruct.

August 5, 2018

Scientists engineered tumor cells to secrete a molecule that causes death of the main tumor they came from, but not the engineered cells. Then, they triggered self-destruct of the engineered cells with a targeted drug. “The authors then tested the […]