How close are we to being able to regrow limbs and organs? || Regeneration: what does it mean and how does it work?
Regeneration means the regrowth of a damaged or missing organ part from the remaining tissue. Humans can regrow some organs like the liver, skin. If part of the liver is lost by disease or injury, the liver grows back to its original size, though not its original shape. And our skin is constantly being renewed and repaired. Unfortunately, many human tissue and organs couldn’t be regenerated naturally, genetic engineering is trying its best to resolve this problem. But it's true that the human liver can regrow after damage.
So let’s see how it would be possible for humans to regenerate their organs:-
- If medical advances continue, maybe we can expect within 20 years or so, we’ll be able to make replacement fingers using 3-D bioprinters and our own stem cells.
- I think this depends on many factors. We’re making great progress in understanding the basic science of regeneration and even have some promising animal models.
- But since the human population is growing in the world at a somehow exponential rate, on the other hand, we may also expect that 90% of the human population would die due to the increase in infrastructure on this planet, before coming of this regeneration technique to regrow our organs.
Why Can’t We Regrow Organs Yet?
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10 Body Parts Grown in the Lab
- Fallopian tubes
- Minibrain
- MiniKidney
- Minilung
- Ministomach
- Vagina
- Penis
- Esophagus
- Ear
- Liver cells
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