REGENERATIVE

MEDICINE
Amelia Deasy
Nathania Martha-16710154
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Regenerative Medicine is the process of creating
living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue
or organ function lost due to damage, or congenital
defects.

This field plays an important role in regenerating

damaged tissues and organs in the body by
stimulating previously irreparable organs to heal
themselves.
In regenerative medicine, scientists can grow tissues
and organs in the laboratory and safely implant
them when the body cannot heal itself.

Importantly, regenerative medicine has the potential

to solve problem such as lack of organs which are
supposed to be donated and help a lot of patient
that require organ transplantation.
Regenerative medicine was found when Dr. Anthony Atala
and his colleagues from North Carolina have succesfully
extracted musle and bladder cells from some patients’
bodies. They cultivated these cells in petri dishes, and then
layered the cells in three-dimensional molds that resembled
the shapes of the bladders.

In weeks, these cells started functioning as the real bladders

which then implanted to the patients’ bodies. The team is
currently working on re-growing over 22 other different
organs including the Liver, Heart, Kidneys and Testicles.
Tissue Engineering
Some small animals, like salamanders, lizards and some
frogs, could regenerate lost limb or tail, but higher
animals like humans can not do this.
It is amazing how these animals’ body know which part
to regrow, in exactly same shape.
In human, cells lack the ability to regrow in previous
anatomical shape of the tissue.
Instead, they randomly migrate to form a two-
dimensional monolayer of cells. They need some cues
to reorganize into tissues.