Looking Back and Ahead in the Use of Pluripotent Stem Cells in Medicine
There are a few papers and commentaries that you might find interesting in the latest issue of Regenerative Medicine. The one I'll point out here offers a retrospective and a forecast for the use of pluripotent stem cells in medicine. It is authored by one of the more outspoken figures from the last decade of research and development, but is worth reading regardless of that point. All industries tend to follow what has come to be known as a hype cycle as they reach critical mass and transition into broad adoption and large scale development. Stem cell medicine as a whole had its initial peak of attention and overhyped expectations, followed by a consequent period of disillusionment as people realized that it wasn't a silver bullet for everything, and that, yes, there was actually going to be quite a lot of work involved in turning the new knowledge of stem cell biology and promising early results in transplant therapies into the bigger, better next generation of medicine. All of that largely took place almost decade ago. As is always the case, it is after the initial hype and crash is out of the way that the real work begins in earnest, and at a far greater scale. The ongoing development of cell therapies is now well into this quieter, more productive period of growth; the engineering of reliable treatments that improve upon the prior state of the art.
Not all cell therapies are relevant to aging and rejuvenation, but since it is the case that comparatively simple form...
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