Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair

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In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that "nanostimulators"—nanoparticles seeded with a molecule the body naturally produces to prompt stem cells to heal wounds—can amp up stem cells' regenerative powers in a targeted limb in mice.