By Amy Marturana Winderl – HealthCentral –
Taking a person’s own cells out of their body and then putting them back in to heal damaged organs and tissues is a medical concept that feels plucked straight out of a science fiction book. It’s even trippier to consider taking a different person’s cells or lab-grown organs and nestling them into your own body to treat or cure a disease. Yet this concept—regenerative medicine—is something scientists have actually been working on IRL for years. In fact, doctors have been using this type of next-gen medicine to some extent for over a half century….
