Regenerative Repair and Medicine

Advances in Cell Therapy Research

Although stem cell research has been productive from its inception more recent developments in the field have mostly concentrated on converting scientific discoveries into novel treatments. It is a novel approach to tissue and organ restoration in a number of diseases. There is an acute need for new therapeutic approaches because of the annual loss of many lives from the lack of donor organs which leads to permanent immunosuppression. The capacity to self-renew and differentiate into a wide variety of specialised cell types are two traits that define stem cells.