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by azernik 2773 days ago
The joys of press releases vs. actual scientific papers.
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The innovation is personalized hydrogels built to avoid rejection, not the induced pluripotent stem cells which were re-differentiated into things. The key was the structural materials which hold those cells.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201803895

That makes sense but is hydrogel rejection really a thing? I thought hydrogels were already safe from rejection because they don’t contain anything the immune system sees as a threat. Same goes for collagen, no?
Gotta love HN as there's always someone with deeper understanding who can give a critics view of "breakthroughs" we find in the news