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Advancing the process of tissue repair

Stem Cells occur naturally in the body and are the body’s raw materials. They can exist in an undifferentiated state until called upon because of injury or illness. Cells may be self-sustaining units of life, but they don’t live in isolation. Their survival depends on receiving and processing information from the outside environment. Importantly, cells also can communicate with one another — and change in response — by way of a variety of chemical and mechanical signals.

Cells sense their environment ¹, and from that can modify their cell type to affect a tissue-specific repair. Cell signalling allows for specialization of groups of cells. Multiple cell types can then join together to form tissues, such as muscle, bone or blood.

Because of this ability to sense their environment, highly engineered tissue scaffolds like CertOss and Chondro3 provide powerful signals to endogenous cells, driving their differentiation into a particular type of cell and affect the coordination of tissue repair.