Items Tagged ‘#Regenerative medicine’
January 21, 2021
Tapping regenerative sciences to unlock mysteries of peripheral neuropathy
Mayo Clinic is using regenerative sciences to unravel the mysteries of peripheral neuropathy and deliver new cures for a painful disease that affects millions of Americans. Nathan Staff, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist, is leveraging stem cells to recreate neuropathy in a petri dish to trace the origins of a common disorder rooted in […]
Tags: #Center for Regenerative Medicine Biotrust, #chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, #Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, #Nathan Staff, #peripheral neuropathy, #Regenerative medicine
January 7, 2021
Regenerating the larynx: A second chance at speech
Mayo Clinic is leveraging advances in regenerative medicine to restore function for people whose lives have been drastically changed by a laryngectomy — surgery to remove the voice box. People without a voice box can neither speak with their natural voices nor breathe through their noses. Simple pleasures like smelling a bouquet of flowers or […]
Tags: #Dr. David Lott, #Dr. Richard Hayden, #laryngeal cancer, #laryngectomy, #Larynx transplantation, #Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, #medical research, #Regenerative medicine
April 30, 2020
Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body’s natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects […]
Tags: #Coronavirus, #COVID-19, #Dr. Craig Sawchuk, #Dr. Victor Montori, #Regenerative medicine