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RE: Heart Regeneration by Lineages of Stem Cells: The End of All Heart Diseases?
I still find it intolerable that we can produce perfectly new babies, with new hearts and new skin and new everything, but for some reason our own bodies must be doomed to aging and degeneration, just cos nature decided that we should be nothing but glorified gene-carrying machines. But the power is in us! All we have to do is find out how to trigger it.
That is why the goal of Regenerative Medicine is that, produce new organs or arms or basically whatever you want. I think that eventually one day we can reach the point of complete regeneration, but also there is going to be a problem with ethics & governments as usual. For example, working with embryonic stem cells is strictly regulated, to the point that if you "wash-off" the cells you can even go to jail!
Anyway, the power to achieve that as scientists relies on further investigation!