Medical trends that help people live longer

What is regenerative medicine?

Regenerative Medicine is a new branch of medicine that focuses on replacing, repairing, and restoring cells and tissues, including organs that have degenerated or been injured due to natural aging and diseases, with treatments such as cell therapy and stem cell therapy.

Stem cells have the highest potential in the human body. They have two important characteristics, which are

1. Self-renewal: the ability to multiply by dividing, while maintaining the characteristics of being a stem cell during the proliferation.

2. Differentiation: transform into cells of a specific type or multiple types when given the appropriate stimuli.

Stem cells are divided into two main types:

1. Embryonic stem cells are stem cells that can be isolated from an embryo, specifically from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst stage embryo. They are capable of differentiating into nearly every type of cell in the body.

2. Adult stem cells are derived from fully developed organisms or tissues. They have the ability to differentiate into specialized cell types within their respective tissues. Examples include hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells. The process of generating new cells and repairing damaged cells is a continuous process within the human body, facilitated by adult stem cells dividing to replenish old or damaged cells.