Open AccessRegenerative medicine and cell therapy
Author(s) -
Carlo Alberto Redi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of histochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2038-8306
pISSN - 1121-760X
DOI - 10.4081/ejh.2013.br4
Subject(s) - mistake , miracle , regenerative medicine , illusion , medicine , stem cell , speculation , cell therapy , intensive care medicine , stem cell biology , neuroscience , psychology , biology , political science , law , business , microbiology and biotechnology , embryo , genetics , reproductive technology , finance , embryogenesis
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..