Review Article
History of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration with Modern Day Applications in Medicine
Tanyi EO*
Wake Early College of Health & Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA
*Corresponding author: Tanyi EO, Wake Early College of Health & Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA;
E-mail: eotanyi@waketech.edu
Copyright: © 2023 Tanyi EO. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Article Information: Submission: 03/01/2023; Accepted: 24/02/2023; Published: 28/02/2023
Abstract
Regenerative medicine is a scientific process of growing living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue or organ function that has been depleted
due to age, disease, injury, or congenital defects. Regenerative medicine can also be referred to as a group of biomedical approaches to clinical therapies
that may involve the use of stem cells. This branch in medicine enables scientists to grow tissues and organs in the laboratory which could be surgically
implanted into specific locations in the human body to progressively heal itself to restore depleted organs function. Regenerative medicine has the potential
to solve broad ranged medical issues like shortage of organs available for donation compared with the number of patients that require them. Furthermore,
it could be used in transplantation, in particular, in complex organ transplant rejection which is slowly but surely being pedestaled for the common-sense
practical reason that the organ’s cells must match that of the patient. Examples include injection of stem cells or progenitor cells (i.e., cell therapies); induction
of regeneration by biologically active molecules (i.e., immunomodulation); and transplantation of in vitro grown organs and tissues (i.e., tissue engineering).
