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Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative medicine is the field concerned with restoring the structure and function of tissues and organs damaged by injury, disease, or aging, using strategies that harness the body's own repair capacity. Its principal tools are stem and progenitor cells, biomaterial scaffolds, growth factors, and tissue-enginee…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 11 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 329× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-4372 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Regenerative medicine is the field concerned with restoring the structure and function of tissues and organs damaged by injury, disease, or aging, using strategies that harness the body's own repair capacity. Its principal tools are stem and progenitor cells, biomaterial scaffolds, growth factors, and tissue-engineering approaches that combine these elements to reconstitute functional tissue. Stem cell therapies are a defining paradigm, employing sources such as mesenchymal stem cells, including umbilical cord-derived and adipose-derived populations, to generate specialized cell types and support repair, for example odontoblasts for dental applications or engineered laryngeal tissue. Scaffolds provide the structural and biochemical environment that guides cell attachment, growth, and tissue formation; calcium orthophosphate constructs for bone engineering and degradable polymers such as chitosan illustrate how material properties shape regenerative outcomes. Emerging fabrication methods, including three-dimensional bioprinting coupled with organ-on-a-chip systems, extend biomimicry and enable more physiologically faithful models. Because these interventions act on living cells and human development, they raise substantial ethical and translational considerations that accompany scientific progress. Understanding molecular control of differentiation and development underpins the field's rationale. Regenerative medicine therefore integrates cell biology, materials science, and bioengineering to move toward durable restoration of damaged tissues rather than symptomatic management alone.

Research published in this journal

11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 11 articles above have been cited 329 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Regenerative Medicine, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Evolving Stem Cell Research (ISSN 2574-4372).

Journal editorial board
Takafumi Yokota · Japan Chiara Raggi · Italy Morikuni Tobita · Japan

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