In a pioneering advance for regenerative medicine, a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering has successfully integrated human organoids into pig kidneys using normothermic perfusion. This demonstrates for the first time that functional mini-organs can be inserted on a large [...]
In recent decades, the biology of aging has moved beyond speculation to become one of the most dynamic areas of biomedical research. Far from merely prolonging life, modern science has set its sights on a more ambitious goal: to reverse [...]
Scientists from the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, in China, together with the Spanish doctor Miguel Ángel Esteban, have managed to obtain for the first time a rudiment of a human organ in an animal (chimeras), according to the [...]
Since the clinical advent of in vitro fertilization in the early 1980s, a wide range of ethical considerations and concerns regarding artificial womb technology (AWT) have been described. Recent advances in the development of extracorporeal neonatal life support through AWT [...]
The well-known Spanish researcher Juan Carlos Izpisúa has led a research, recently published in Cell Reports, in which scientists have managed to regenerate liver tissue in mice by reprogramming liver cells to earlier stages of development. Mammals have limited regenerative [...]
A research team led by the Spaniard Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte has published a paper in the journal Nature Aging in which they claim to have achieved cell and tissue rejuvenation in mice, using the technique already described by Shinya [...]
Research opens up new possibilities for generating functional neurons in the adult brain from stem cells in conditions with of neuronal loss, such as neurodegenerative diseases. Neurogenesis is a developmental process that generates new functional neurons and occurs throughout life [...]
Chinese researchers claim to have built an artificial womb that could carry an artificial pregnancy. Some media are reporting a research study published in the Chinese “Journal of Biomedical Engineering”, conducted by researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering [...]
Gene therapy risks must be evaluated in each clinical trial A news published last October 1 in the Wall Street Journal (see HERE) affirms that the prospects for the human use of gene therapy enter a dark phase when the [...]
In recent years, research that uses stem cells in regenerative medicine has been developed, to create repairing treatments for tissues and organs. Our Observatory has published several articles referring to the bioethical aspects of these researches and their, until now, [...]
One of the great advances in medicine is regenerative therapy and stem cell treatments. They are relevant numbers of products and therapies, several of them have been approved by the FDA but many more are in the trial phase. Stem [...]
The first trials were carried out twenty years ago, in animals with stem cells in the heart the latest experimentation with satisfactory results in mice was made last year (read HERE). The aim has been to regenerate lost heart muscle [...]
