used to regenerate the trachea were the patient’s own stem cell, there was no rejection of the transplant and the patient did not take any anti-rejection drugs.
Regenerative medicine is a type of medical care to regenerate cells, tissues, or organs after aging, accidents, or diseases and restore body functions. Tissue engineering is an important part of anti-aging regenerative medicine. The advances in stem cell research has made it possible to use patient’s own cell to grow and engineer organ transplant which does not incur immune rejection problems. As the stem cell and tissue engineering science advances, more and more organs

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July, 2011 – LATimes.com
A synthetic trachea grown from a patient’s own stem cells and seeded on a synthetic structure was transplanted into a 36-year-old man and saved his life.
What is new in this synthetic trachea is the scaffold used. Before, the biological material used was a donor organ where cells were removed away and the patient’s own stem cells was put in. This time the process is similar, but the tissue engineering scaffold is a spongy scaffold instead.
Because the cells used to regenerate the trachea were the patient’s own stem cell, there was no rejection of the transplant and the patient did not take any anti-rejection drugs.
Regenerative medicine is a type of medical care to regenerate cells, tissues, or organs after aging, accidents, or diseases and restore body functions. Tissue engineering is an important part of anti-aging regenerative medicine. The advances in stem cell research has made it possible to use patient’s own cell to grow and engineer organ transplant which does not incur immune rejection problems. As the stem cell and tissue engineering science advances, more and more organs will be able to be made in vitro from patient’s own cell to save patient’s life such as cancer patients. which may not be possible in the past.

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