Using Stem Cells To Repair Torn Tendons

... Weekend athletes who overexert themselves running or playing basketball may one day reap the benefits of research that shows adult stem cells can make new tendon tissue. Researchers Dan Gazit and colleagues at Hadassah Medical Center in Israel engineered mouse mesenchymal stem cells, which reside in the bone marrow and fat tissue, to express a protein called Smad8 and another called BMP2, each involved in the formation of bone and cartilage... click link for more info. ...