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andy-fillebrown··on Israeli scientists develop tissue implants that won't be rejected
That makes sense but is hydrogel rejection really a thing? I thought hydrogels were already safe from rejection because they don’t contain anything the immune system sees as a threat. Same goes for collagen, no?
andy-fillebrown··on Israeli scientists develop tissue implants that won't be rejected
This is interesting stuff but I don't think the article describes anything groundbreaking. The cells used by the scientists in the article are called adipose-derived stem cells and their applications are already well known in the regenerative medicine industry. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3668445

The biologists I develop software with have been talking about adipose-derived stem cells for over a year, so I was hoping the article was going to announce a technological leap in organ manufacturing. It did not.