Thanks to the startup Evolved.Bio and its innovative muscle tissue regeneration technology, new hope is emerging for people who have suffered significant muscle damage. This major advance in regenerative medicine could be a game-changer for hundreds of thousands of people every year (A year is a unit of time that indicates the duration between two events of a related event…). Unlike other biotechnology companies that use natural or synthetic materials to create in vitro (in vitro) grown tissue substitutes. Latin: “in a glass”) means a tube test, or, more…), the Evolved.Bio method eliminates the risk of rejection by the body, which is often perceived as a foreign body (a foreign body is an object with a size of at least more than a millimeter and the…). Alireza Shahin, co-founder and CEO of Evolved.Bio, explains that their technique allows cells to recreate all the components and structures of healthy tissue outside the body. Thus, after implantation, the tissue has all the properties expected by the body, which facilitates the restoration of the tissue by the patient’s cells (in the medical field, the term “patient” usually refers to a person who receives…).
Guided cell sheets to form scaffold-free anchored constructs for in vitro modeling by providing columns that serve as anchors for otherwise anchorless cell sheets.
Photo credit: Advanced Functional Materials (2023). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202308552
Their technology, presented in the article “Anchored Cell Sheet Engineering: A Novel Scaffold-Free Platform for in vitro Modeling” published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, is applicable to everything (all inclusive as a set of what exists often interpreted as world or…) type of cells and tissues. However, Evolved.Bio initially focuses on skeletal muscle tissue, which is responsible for movement and makes up the majority of tissue in the human body. (The human body is the physical structure of a person.)
John Cappuccitti, co-founder of Evolved.Bio, also emphasizes the potential of this technology in other areas, such as the production of cultured meat. However, the main focus remains on regenerative medicine, with the aim of providing a permanent solution for people suffering from volumetric muscle loss, a condition that so far often remains untreated (day or day is the period of time between getting up and going to bed, sun; it is the… ).
Evolved.Bio is based at Velocity, the startup incubator at the University of Waterloo, and since 2021 has benefited from an important network for the development of its technology. The co-founders emphasize the importance of this collaboration, both in terms of space and human support.
This breakthrough opens up promising perspectives for the treatment of muscle injuries and offers an alternative to existing, often unsatisfactory methods.