What Is Regenerative Medicine?

Imagine a treatment that frees a child from the daily insulin injections of diabetes, or helps a grandmother weakened by heart failure regain her independence. Imagine a treatment that helps a soldier disfigured by injuries regain his self-confidence. Imagine damaged organs regrowing and wounds healing without scars.

These therapies may sound like science fiction, but many are available now thanks to regenerative medicine.

Regenerative medicine is a new way of treating injuries and diseases that uses specially-grown tissues and cells (including stem cells), laboratory-made compounds, and artificial organs. Combinations of these approaches can amplify our natural healing process in the places it's needed most, or take over the function of a permanently damaged organ.







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