by The Francis Crick Institute
Head of the Crick’s Stem Cells and Neuromuscular Regeneration Lab, Francesco Saverio Tedesco, is also a doctor at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he specializes in neurological and neuromuscular diseases of childhood, like muscular dystrophy. In his lab, his team are working on brand new ways to generate muscle tissue, that will help researchers understand diseases where muscles deteriorate, but could also be the first steps towards future muscle regeneration therapies.
The team have published their latest methods for growing skeletal muscle tissue from stem cells, in Nature Protocols, and we spoke to Saverio about their progress.