Question: What are regenerative medicine

Alex Lyness answered on 18 Jun 2014:

Hey osama,

Regenerative medicine is an emerging, but fast-moving, field of healthcare with huge potential to transform lives for the better.

It covers a wide range of therapies designed to enable damaged, diseased or defective skin, bone and other tissues – and even perhaps organs – to work normally again.

Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and cell therapies are all very similar in that they use human cells to regenerate, repair and restore function to damaged parts of the body after illness or injury.

The really exciting thing is that we are using the building blocks (stem cells) to make people better and we’re only just finding out now how much better they may work than traditional medicines that have been used decades and, in some cases, for centuries!