Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm.
A team at Keele University is testing injectible stem cells that they say they can control with a magnet.
Once injected these immature cells can be guided to precisely where their help is needed and encouraged to grow new cartilage and bone, work on mice shows.
It would provide a way to treat disease without invasive surgery or powerful drugs.
The injection would use the patient's own stem cells, harvested from their bone marrow.
These mesenchymal cells would be treated in the lab to give them a coating of minute magnetic particles.
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