Regenerative medecine

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ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS

Advancement in regenerative medicine could make the ability to regenerate native-like tissue and restore their function and structure to reduce the risk of organ rejection. It can also improve medical outcome and reduce the difficulty and the cost of treatments, improve clinic safety and efficiency advancement, decrease negative effect of existing procedures… Regenerative medicine would be able to treat and cure many diseases and it could also help scientists understand the human body better.

Regenerative medicine is still in its infancy. Some people believe that it has no future in helping improve medicine or science. They are doubting because its outcome is still unknown. There can be unknown long term side effects. There is still a risk of rejection of body parts in regenerative medicine which could make the initial problem worse. Indeed, embryonic stem cell are not from the patient’s body and adult stem cell can only generate cells of the same type as theirs. Even if in the future this medicine could save money but right now, treatments are very costly and difficult because the field is not advanced. Stem cells researches helps the research into human cloning, whereas we know that cloning is not a good thing. Indeed, it allows to create an exact genetic copy of a living organism. Using stem cells causes a hot debate. It pushes people to choose between two moral principles: alleviate suffering or respect the value of human life. Some people believe that subject like researches on stem cells are sensitive in the way that we should not think we are God. They think that altering the basis structure of a human’s genes is putting hands somewhere they should not be.

NEWS ON THIS FIELD

The University of Pittsburg’s (CMI) Center for Medicine Innovation got rewarded for four researches in 2016. The latest was a new tech for treatment of diabetes. This tech requires emergent incubation. It is an innovative method for bon regeneration and a novel approach for implementing vascular bypass grafts.

In an article published in 2010 tit said that some American scientists have created the first artificial human liver in a lab. Even if it cannot be transplanted to a human being it’s still a big advance that may solve the issue of shortage of organ availability for donation.

In Australia scientists have in only two weeks, turn fat cells or bone cells into multipotent stem cells which means that they can generate any kind of cells damaged by an accident or a disease or just by aging. Testing on humans are forecast for 2017 and if they are successful it can help a lot of people like people who present chronical pain or complicated transplant concerning bone or articulation.

CONCLUSION

Regenerative medicine is a new field that has a bright future but with some there are still a few grey areas due to its freshness. Focusing on it could make a big difference in the world of medicine and in science. This science could further research on human being, permit scientist understand human’s body better. Stem cells research could too allow breakthrough. Nowadays thanks to stem cell research we can grow artificial organs in labs but if we pursue research in regenerative medicine, one day we may grow our own organs!