A piece at PLoS Biology takes an educational look at the most basic basics of regenerative medicine – the cellular biochemistry that makes it all possible. “The regeneration of lost body parts and injured organs has captured the human imagination since the time of the ancient Greeks … During the nineteenth century and for most of the twentieth century, regeneration research primarily focused on the phenomenology of regeneration and its cellular basis … The public has recently exhibited a renewed interest in regeneration research, due in large part to stem cell research, which has provided promising avenues for the field of regenerative medicine.”Regenerative medicine will have a large positive influence on quality and length of life in the decades ahead.
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