Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative medicine is targeting developing and applying new treatments to heal tissues and organs and restore function lost because of aging, disease, damage or defects. It is also working to make solutions for organs that become permanently damaged.

1. Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials

Tissue engineering could also be a technique where biologically compatible scaffolds are implanted within the body at the situation where new tissue is to be formed. If the scaffold is within the geometric shape of the tissue that must be generated, and therefore the scaffold attracts cells the result is new tissue within the shape desired. If the newly forming tissue is subjected to exercise because it forms, the result are often new functional engineered issue.

2. Cellular Therapies

Our body uses stem cells together way of repairing itself. Studies have stated that if adult stem cells are harvested then injected at the site of diseased or damaged tissue, reconstruction of the tissue is possible under the proper circumstances. These cells are often collected from blood, fat, bone marrow, dental pulp, striated muscle and other sources. Cord blood provides yet one more source of adult stem cells. Scientists and clinicians are developing and refining their ability to arrange harvested stem cells to be injected into patients to repair diseased or damaged tissue.

3. Medical Devices and Artificial Organs

The clinical strategy is to transplant a replacement organ from a donor. The principal challenges are the supply of donor organs, and therefore the requirement that the donor take immunosuppression drugs—which have side effects. Further, there are many instances where the time to seek out an appropriate donor organ requires an interim strategy to support or supplement the function of the failing organ until a transplantable organ is found.