One touch

A group led by Chandan Sen from the Indiana University School of Medicine has developed a nanoscale device that can safely reprogram one type of tissue into another. It uses tissue nanotransfection technology and is a specially designed biological cargo for cell transformation and a carrier for cargo delivery to adult cells of a living organism.

Tissue nanotransfection does not require any laboratory procedures and can be performed at the place of medical care. The procedure is non-invasive. For example, direct contact of the nanochip hardware with the skin lasting less than one second is enough to deliver the cargo to the skin cells, after which they turn into vasculogenic (giving rise to vessels) cells.

This technology avoids the use of stem cells and is easy to use. Tissue nanotransfection has been licensed to be able to transform skin and other tissues into tissues needed for therapy. The technology can become the basis for the treatment of burns, trophic wounds, post-traumatic injuries leading to skin deficiency.

Sen and his group continue to refine this first-of-its-kind technology so that it can soon be available to patients.

Aminat Adzhieva, portal "Eternal Youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru based on the materials of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering: Tissue Nanotransfection Technology.