https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/07/miracle-device-can-heal-single-touch-and-even-repair-brain-injuries/537326001/
The technology, known as Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), has the potential to save the lives of car crash victims and even deployed soldiers injured on site. It's a dime-sized silicone chip that "injects genetic code into skin cells, turning those skin cells into other types of cells required for treating diseased conditions," according to a release.http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170807/ohio-state-researchers-report-breakthrough-in-cell-regeneration
In what researchers consider a major scientific leap, a team at Ohio State University has discovered a new way of turning skin cells into any type of cells the body might need, a technology that has limitless potential, from regenerating a wounded limb to repairing a brain after stroke to healing a damaged heart.
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While it hasn’t been used in humans yet, the process was used in animals to heal brains after stroke and to generate blood vessels in legs where the femoral artery, the limbs’ major blood supply, had been cut, said Chandan Sen, the director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cell-Based Therapies at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center.
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In brain experiments on mice, the chip was again placed on the leg, different genetic material was dropped on, and neurological cells grew in the area. Three weeks later, scientists detected firing neurons, and the new cells were taken from the leg and inserted into the brain.
