Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

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"These findings provide insight into the biology of the intervertebral disc," he ... by the lack of investigations on healthy human spinal discs. "Taken together, the currently known facts evoke ...

The active ingredient in IDCT is a live, manufactured progenitor cell population derived from donated adult human intervertebral disc tissue. These cells undergo enrichment and expansion into ...

After graduating in 2016, she moved to the University of Manchester, where she worked as a postdoctoral research associate, investigating the development of the human intervertebral disc and ...

I graduated with a 1 st class honours degree in Pharmacology from The University of Manchester in 2000, and went on to undertake a Wellcome funded PhD at The University of Manchester investigating the ...