Regenerative medicine and cell therapy

Cell therapies are clinical practices already by decades in fields like blood tumors and severe burns but the term itself when associated with regenerative medicine switch on a cascade of imaginery thoughts that risk to create false hopes; in other words, the imaginary idea that physicians can cure...

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Main Author: Carlo Alberto Redi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2013-06-01
Series:European Journal of Histochemistry
Online Access:http://www.ejh.it/index.php/ejh/article/view/2150
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Summary:Cell therapies are clinical practices already by decades in fields like blood tumors and severe burns but the term itself when associated with regenerative medicine switch on a cascade of imaginery thoughts that risk to create false hopes; in other words, the imaginary idea that physicians can cure all of the diseases since each day the media report of some very important advance in stem cell biology. This is a mistake, mirrored by the downbeat idea that speculators are pledging false possibilities selling illusions of miracle cures...
ISSN:1121-760X
2038-8306