University of Wisconsin Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Murphy has developed a new stem cell screening process, the university announced on Wednesday.

Murphy’s development, which was published recently in Nature Scientific Reports, will allow greater control over how cells react to the gene delivery system.

“The advance could be really impactful and could enable gene delivery to become an integral part of medical device design and tissue engineering applications,” Murphy said in a statement.

According to a release, the process could be critical in furthering advances in regenerative medicine and “provide engineers a simpler way to build the complex tissue structures required to deliver next-generation drug screening and patient therapies.”