Editorial

16:20 JST, March 23, 2025

Hopes are high for regenerative medicine, which seeks to use the cells of the body to cure patients. However, some regenerative treatments that have not been covered by public health insurance have been of poor quality, causing health problems.

Regenerative medicine is a kind of treatment that repairs tissues and organs damaged by an illness or injury, using methods such as converting cells.

For example, treatments using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are a type of regenerative medicine. University hospitals and research institutes have conducted clinical research on iPS cells with the aim of applying them to the treatment of intractable diseases such as heart and eye conditions.

Meanwhile, treatments using regenerative medicine have been performed on an out-of-pocket basis at private clinics for cosmetic purposes such as wrinkle removal, as well as........

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