Regenerative medicine includes gene therapies, cell therapies, and tissue-engineered products intended to augment, repair, replace or regenerate organs, tissues, cells, genes, and metabolic processes in the body.
Regenerative medicine aims to alter the current practice of medicine by treating the root causes of disease and disorders.
Gene therapy seeks to introduce genes into a patient’s body to durably treat, prevent, or potentially cure diseases, including rare genetic diseases and some prevalent diseases.
Gene editing is a technique by which DNA is inserted, replaced, removed, or modified at particular locations in the human genome for therapeutic benefit in order to treat rare inherited disorders or other diseases.
Cell therapy is the administration of viable, often purified cells into a patient’s body to grow, replace, or repair damaged tissue to treat a disease. A variety of different types of cells can be used in cell therapy.
Tissue engineering seeks to restore, maintain, improve, or replace damaged tissues and organs through the combination of scaffolds, cells, and/or biologically active molecules.