Bench to bedside: Current advances in regenerative medicine

Gabriella Clarke, Peter Harley, Ella-Louise Hubber, Teodora Manea, Luigi Manuelli, Emily Read, Fiona M Watt

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Abstract

Regenerative medicine is a diverse and rapidly evolving field, employing core expertise from biologists, engineers, and clinicians. Recently the field has made significant progress towards regenerating or replacing tissues lost to age, disease or injury. Current strategies include transplantation of adult or pluripotent stem cells to replace tissue or support tissue healing. Promising approaches for the future of regenerative medicine include stimulating endogenous stem cells for in situ repair, transplantation of organoids to repair minor tissue injury, and the use of interspecies chimerism to produce functional metabolic organs for transplantation. In our review we focus on these emerging strategies, paying particular attention to their current and prospective translational impacts and challenges.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)59-66
Number of pages8
JournalCurrent Opinion in Cell Biology
Volume55
Early online date11 Jul 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

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