Knitting with human yarn by TheNakedScientists

Scientists have created thread out of human cells to make replacement blood vessels

We’ve heard about tree fibres, wool, cotton, linen, and other materials you can use to make fabrics, and we’ve gone back over 27,000 years in the process. But, looking ahead now, we’ve not yet considered making things out of our own bodies. And Nicolas L’Heureux is a Bioengineer at INSERM, in France, where he’s developed a technique to produce a “yarn” made from human tissue that can be woven, knitted or braided into new structures, like replacement repair blood vessels, as he told Chris Smith…

Nicolas – We take a small skin biopsy, and from that we can get cells. And some of these cells are specialized in building the architecture of the body, building the scaffolding of body. And we take these cells, we put them in the lab. We give them a nice little environment where they’re happy and they multiply. And they work really hard at building this scaffolding that makes us strong and sturdy.

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Published by TheNakedScientists on January 18, 2021