Regenerative Medicine: Fact or Fiction
摘要
Regenerative medicine is, in fact, not a miracle cure that can treat all conditions in which many companies and clinics advertise. With the ever-increasing interest in the last few decades, regenerative medicine has become a continually growing multi-billion-dollar industry. However, through misinformation and deception, many have tried to exploit the lack of understanding of the science for economic gains. These practices dilute and obscure truths creating many misconceptions, myths, and fictional claims. Starting with our observations in nature, we explored how nature’s processes of regeneration can be applied to our own lives. Through extensive research on concepts, theories, products, and applications, regenerative medicine and stem cells have been applied to many aspects of medicine, especially in orthopaedics and sports. It is important to remember that we must walk before we can run and remain realistic in the proven applications and uses of regenerative medicine and stem cell therapy. We must remain unbiased and humble, to understand the facts and truths, and not engage and practice in works of fiction.