Regenerative+Medicine

Regenerative Medicine: Medicines Cutting Edge
Jen Eccleston

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his finger after he applied the matrix for a series of ten days.)
Transplants have many disadvantages (waiting list). (This is a teenager who just had heart transplant surgery.)

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( Patrick White, triple amputee, has to pay a lot of money for his condition and will have a harder time performing daily tasks.) ======

Regenerative medicine will be beneficial for soldiers, athletes, and citizens who are faced with injuries resulting in amputation.

“ Getting these people to where they are functioning and reintegrated, employed, (and) able to help their families and be fully participating members of society is the task at hand…” says Dr. S. Casscells.