October 20th, 2005

Regenerative Medicine Is But a Part of the Story

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There has been a flurry of promising news and progress of late in the fields of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. This is a good thing, needless to say; visible progress towards cures for many presently fatal age-related conditions is very welcome. As the Strategies for Engineering Negligible Senescence (SENS) remind us, however, even the mature regenerative medicine of ten or twenty years in our future will only provide part of a solution to age-related degeneration. Loss of functional tissue - the problem solved by regenerative therapies - is only one of the seven general classes of age-related damage outlined in SENS.

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