We are living, breathing creatures capable of self-healing in so many ways. Nothing brings this notion home more than human cell regeneration and a field of medicine exploring stem cells and the cell regeneration impact factor. What is regenerative medicine all about, anyhow?
Every single one of us has the ability to regenerate our cells. We’re programmed for it. That’s how we grow and develop and heal. Look at is this way: Everyone completely regenerates their own skin every seven days. When you cut yourself, it heals and disappears in a week or so. That’s skin cell regeneration.Our bones and ligaments, too, are living, breathing material. Every single cell in our skeleton is replaced every seven years. We’re not able to regrow a whole leg or arm, however, and many other human tissues don’t regenerate. (A young salamander, on the other hand, can regrow a whole leg in about five weeks!) A main goal in regenerative medicine is to find ways to kick-start tissue regeneration in the body, or to engineer replacement tissues.
