Tissue engineering of functional cartilage by scaffold-mediated lentiviral transduction.



Scientists from Duke university have used lentiviral gene delivery technology to grow new cartilage. Chondrogenesis was induced by combining viral transduction with advanced scaffold design. Lentiviral vector delivering TGF-beta was immobilised to polycaprone films that encreased effectiveness of mesenchymal stem cell transduction in vitro.

This stydy was sponsored by Cytex Therapeutics. 

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