RegenerativeRegrowing Skin using ReCell
Avita Medical is an Australian company with a product able to treat burns, improve scars or smooth irregular coloured areas of your body, leaving minimal scarring, simply by having a consultant spray on new skin.
Its a clinically proven unique culture technology from which hundreds of patients world wide have already benefited.
Because the new cells are autologous, grown from a patient's own cells, there is no risk of rejection and no risk of disease transmission. In addition, because they are in a spray form, applying the new cells takes just minutes.
Artificial Cartilage, Tendon and Blood Vessel Tissue
When someone’s knee hurts with every step it’s a sign that the cartilage has been so badly damaged that the bones rub together when walking. Medical scientists are developing a technique to produce cartilage tissue artificially so that patients with such knee problems can walk free of pain again. The aim is also to make tendons and blood vessels in the laboratory.In the near future, cartilage, tendon and blood vessel tissue will be produced in a lab, with cells being grown on a porous frame.
Near Total Face Transplants Now Possible
A face transplant is a still-experimental procedure to replace all or part of a person's face. They are controversial because they carry heavy risks and are performed to improve a patient's quality of life rather than as a life-saving operation. These are becoming known as socially required surguries. There are also concerns that as the operation becomes more routine and safer it could be used for purely cosmetic purposes or as a means of altering identities.
The world's first partial face transplant on a person occured on November 27, 2005. Each time face transplants have been successful, more and more seems to be attempted. By Dec 2008 the Cleveland Clinic performed the worlds 4th face transplant attempting 80% removal and replacement.
Unblocking Arteries with the Excimer Laser System
A company called Spectranetics is revolutionising the way arteries are unblocked by allowing doctors to clear them with a high powered laser rather than using traditional stents or by-pass surgeries. While the procedure is not new, doctors around the world are now starting to perform it as they aquire the equipment. The technique is saving lives as well as limbs. Spectranetics offers the only Excimer Laser System approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of multiple cardiovascular diseases.
Engineer’s at Spectranetics discovered using concentrated ultraviolet light delivered from the Laser, in short, controlled, energy pulses by our own fiber-optic delivery devices could be a valuable medical device in removing build-up of arterial disease within the body.
Scarless Surgery - Removing Organs through the mouth
Man Grows Ear On His Arm
I don't know what to make of this but thought it was worth posting. An Australian performance artist has grown an ear on his arm in the name of art. Next he plans to implant a microphone that will allow the ear to become functional in a way similar to a phone.
Source: skynews.com
Unblocking Arteries with Nanobots
Doctors will one day inject microbots into your blood to fight disease.
Australian scientests have produced electric motors tiny enough to power microbots through blood vessels in the body and the brain. The microbots would be guided by remote control where current medical catheters cannot reach, into small blood vessels to unblock clogged arteries.
Their tiny motor is less than the width of three human hairs. It will soon power medical nanorobots that can swim through tiny blood vessels into the brain. Such devices could enter previously unreachable brain areas, unblocking blood clots, cleaning vessels or sending back images to surgeons.
New Trachea Grown From Stem Cells
Nov 2008 - The first artificial trachea (windpipe), created by using the patient's own stem cells, was successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway in June 2008. The operation was carried out at the Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, by Professor Paolo Macchiarini of the University of Barcelona. The bio-engineered trachea immediately provided the patient with a normal functioning airway which saved her life.Growing New Gums With Stem Cells
Scientists had predicted since the 1970s that gum tissue could contain its own specific stem cells, but until recently, limited technology had failed to show such cells.
In July 2007 US scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), isolated human postnatal stem cells directly from the periodontal ligament, the fibrous, net-like tendon that holds our teeth in their sockets. These stem cells turned out to actually form periodontal ligament and cementum when transplanted into mice. The cells even produced fibrous structures similar to the so called Sharpey's fibers, which insert into both cementum and bone to hold teeth in place.
Regenerating Teeth
Lately there are new products emerging that when applied to teeth encourage the teeth to regrow. So far the technology has appeared in tooth paste and chewing gums and will soon be soon and more and more products.
Periproducts launched its new tooth regenerating toothpaste in October 2007. And Recaldent chewing gum which regenerates teeth is now the fastest growing gum company in Japan.
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