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Diabetes and obesity drugs fuel Eli Lilly profit in the final quarter of 2024 – News-Press Now

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What is prediabetes and what can you do to stop it? – The Independent

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What is prediabetes and what can you do to stop it?  The Independent

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Diabetes symptoms: 6 high blood sugar warning signs that show on hand and feet – India.com

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‘Fix Broken Food System!’ Government Urged as Study Says 1 in 5 Brits Affected by Diabetes – Men’s Health UK

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The #1 Habit for Better Heart Health If You Have Diabetes, According to Experts – EatingWell

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101 Guide to Regenerative Medicine Types | Applications, Challenges

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Have you ever wondered about the future of medicine where healing is not just about managing symptoms, but regenerating lost or damaged tissues? Imagine a world where human tissues could be regrown, organs regenerated, or chronic conditions reversed. This is the promise of regenerative medicine, a rapidly advancing field that is reshaping the landscape of healthcare.

Regenerative medicine is revolutionizing the way we think about healing, offering hope for patients with injuries, degenerative diseases, or conditions previously considered incurable. It involves harnessing the bodys natural healing abilities to repair, replace, or regenerate damaged tissues and organs. But what exactly are the different types of regenerative medicine, and how do they work?

In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the various types of regenerative medicine, their applications, and the scientific breakthroughs making them a reality.

Regenerative medicine encompasses a variety of technologies and strategies that aim to restore the structure and function of damaged tissues and organs. Broadly speaking, there are several types of regenerative medicine, each with its unique approach and potential applications. These can be categorized into three main groups:

Lets dive into each of these types to understand their mechanisms, applications, and future potential.

Stem cell therapy is often considered the cornerstone of regenerative medicine. Stem cells have the remarkable ability to develop into different types of cells in the body, making them incredibly valuable for regenerative applications.

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the potential to differentiate into specialized cells with specific functions. There are two main types of stem cells used in regenerative medicine:

Stem cell therapy is being used in a wide range of applications, including:

Despite the exciting possibilities, there are challenges to stem cell therapy, including immune rejection, ethical concerns, and the need for better control over stem cell differentiation.

However, ongoing research is addressing these issues, and stem cell therapy is expected to become more effective and widely available in the future.

Tissue engineering is another pillar of regenerative medicine. This approach involves using a combination of cells, biomaterials, and growth factors to create functional tissues and organs. The goal is to replicate the complex structures of natural tissues and replace damaged ones.

Tissue engineering involves three main components:

By combining these components, tissue engineers create structures that mimic the natural architecture of tissues such as skin, bone, and blood vessels.

Tissue engineering holds immense promise in the creation and repair of tissues and organs, including:

Although tissue engineering has made significant strides, there are still challenges in creating fully functional, complex tissues and organs. The need for better biomaterials, vascularization (blood supply), and long-term viability of engineered tissues is a major hurdle.

However, innovations in 3D printing, biomaterials, and gene editing hold great promise for overcoming these obstacles.

Gene therapy is an emerging field that involves the introduction or alteration of genetic material within a patients cells to treat or prevent diseases. In regenerative medicine, gene therapy is used to stimulate the regeneration of tissues or repair genetic defects that hinder tissue healing.

Gene therapy works by delivering specific genes into a patients cells to promote tissue repair or regeneration. This can be done using several methods:

The goal is to use gene therapy to either:

Gene therapy is being used to treat a variety of conditions, including:

While gene therapy holds immense potential, there are still several challenges, such as ensuring the safe and effective delivery of genes, avoiding immune responses, and addressing ethical concerns surrounding genetic manipulation.

Despite these hurdles, gene therapy is poised to become an essential tool in regenerative medicine, with the potential to treat a wide range of genetic and degenerative diseases.

Regenerative medicine is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and the future looks promising. As research continues to unlock the full potential of stem cells, tissue engineering, and gene therapy, we can expect to see:

Regenerative medicine is no longer a distant dream; it is a rapidly growing field that promises to revolutionize healthcare. Whether through stem cell therapy, tissue engineering, or gene therapy, the ability to regenerate damaged tissues and organs holds immense potential to change the lives of millions.

While challenges remain, the continuous progress in this area offers hope for curing diseases and repairing injuries that once seemed impossible. The future of regenerative medicine is bright, and its transformative impact on medicine, healthcare, and quality of life cannot be overstated.

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Regenerative Medicine | What is it? | ASCPM

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Regenerative Medicine aims to leverage the bodys innate healing mechanisms to repair, replace, or regenerate tissues and organs with damage or disease. This approach utilizes a variety of techniques including tissue engineering, gene therapy, and biomaterials to trigger the bodys regenerative processes.

Unlike traditional symptomatic treatments, it targets the root cause of ailments affecting muscles, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments, thereby stimulating and accelerating the bodys natural healing abilities.

At ASCPM, board-certified physicians bring years of expertise in minimally invasive procedures, with a focus on regenerative therapies. Through regular training, the ASCPM team stays abreast of the most effective techniques in Regenerative Medicine, ensuring optimal healing outcomes for patients.

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Regenerative medicine and advanced therapy | NIST

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What is regeneratvie medicine and advanced therapy?

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Regenerative medicine therapy, including cell therapy, gene therapy, and therapeutic tissue engineering, provides unprecedented potential to treat, modify, reverse, or cure previously intractable diseases, such as cancer and organ failures. This class of therapy has completely changed the paradigm and the trajectory for medical treatment. Broad clinical translation and patient access requires advances in manufacturing technologies and measurements to ensure the safety, quality, and consistency of the therapy and to reduce the cost.

NIST is committed to solving the measurement challenges of this fast-moving sector of the bioeconomy by providing underpinning measurement infrastructure and platform technologies, as well as standards to promote manufacturing innovation, improve supply chain resilience, and support characterization and testing to facilitate regulatory approval.

The NIST Regenerative Medicine program is working closely with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration'sCenter for Biologics Evaluation and Research(FDA/CBER) and the Standards Coordinating Body (SCB) as well as the broader industry to develop global manufacturing and measurement standards underpinned by a robust measurement infrastructure needed to advance product development and translation as directed by Sec. 3036 of the 21st Century Cures Act.

The NIST laboratory programs support this growing industry as well as the broader industry ecosystem by:

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Therapeutic Reprogramming toward Regenerative Medicine

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Therapeutic reprogramming represents a transformative paradigm in regenerative medicine, developing new approaches in cell therapy, small molecule drugs, biologics, and gene therapy to address unmet medical challenges. This paradigm encompasses the precise modulation of cellular fate and function to either generate safe and functional cells ex vivo for cell-based therapies or to directly ...

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Novel living biomaterial aims to advance regenerative medicine

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researchers at Penn State.

Materials created up to this point to mimic tissues and extracellular matrices (ECMs) the bodys biological scaffolding of proteins and molecules that surrounds and supports tissues and cells have all had limitations that hamper their practical applications, according to the team. To overcome some of those limitations, the researchers developed a bio-based, living material that encompasses self-healing properties and mimics the biological response of ECMs to mechanical stress.

They published their results in Materials Horizons, where the research was also featured on the cover of the journal.

We developed a cell-free or acellular material that dynamically mimics the behavior of ECMs, which are key building blocks of mammalian tissues that are crucial for tissue structure and cell functions, said corresponding author Amir Sheikhi, associate professor of chemical engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering.

According to the researchers, previous iterations of their material a hydrogel, or water-rich polymer network were synthetic and lacked the desired combination of mechanical responsiveness and biological mimicry of ECMs.

Specifically, these materials need to replicate nonlinear strain-stiffening, which is when ECM networks stiffen under strain caused by physical forces exerted by cells or external stimuli, Sheikhi said, explaining nonlinear strain-stiffening is important for providing structural support and facilitating cell signaling. The materials also need to replicate the self-healing properties necessary for tissue structure and survival. Prior synthetic hydrogels had difficulties in balancing material complexity, biocompatibility and mechanical mimicry of ECMs.

The team addressed these limitations by developing acellular nanocomposite living hydrogels (LivGels) made from hairy nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are composed of nanocrystals, or nLinkers, with disordered cellulose chains, or hairs, at the ends. These hairs introduce anisotropy, meaning the nLinkers have different properties depending on their directional orientation and allow dynamic bonding with biopolymer networks. In this case, the nanoparticles bonded with a biopolymeric matrix of modified alginate, which is a natural polysaccharide found in brown algae.

These nLinkers form dynamic bonds within the matrix that enable strain-stiffening behavior, that is, mimicking ECM's response to mechanical stress; and self-healing properties, which restore integrity after damage, Sheikhi said, noting that the researchers used rheological testing, which measures how material behaves under various stressors, to measure how rapidly the LivGels recovered their structure after high strain. This design approach allowed fine-tuning of the material's mechanical properties to match those of natural ECMs.

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UC Irvine-led discovery of new skeletal tissue advances regenerative …

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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 9, 2025 An international research team led by the University of California, Irvine has discovered a new type of skeletal tissue that offers great potential for advancing regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

Most cartilage relies on an external extracellular matrix for strength, but lipocartilage, which is found in the ears, nose and throat of mammals, is uniquely packed with fat-filled cells called lipochondrocytes that provide super-stable internal support, enabling the tissue to remain soft and springy similar to bubbled packaging material.

The study, published online today in the journal Science, describes how lipocartilage cells create and maintain their own lipid reservoirs, remaining constant in size. Unlike ordinary adipocyte fat cells, lipochondrocytes never shrink or expand in response to food availability.

Lipocartilages resilience and stability provide a compliant, elastic quality thats perfect for flexible body parts such as earlobes or the tip of the nose, opening exciting possibilities in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, particularly for facial defects or injuries, said corresponding author Maksim Plikus, UC Irvine professor of developmental and cell biology. Currently, cartilage reconstruction often requires harvesting tissue from the patients rib a painful and invasive procedure. In the future, patient-specific lipochondrocytes could be derived from stem cells, purified and used to manufacture living cartilage tailored to individual needs. With the help of 3D printing, these engineered tissues could be shaped to fit precisely, offering new solutions for treating birth defects, trauma and various cartilage diseases.

Dr. Franz Leydig first recognized lipochondrocytes in 1854, when he noted the presence of fat droplets in the cartilage of rat ears, a finding that was largely forgotten until now. With modern biochemical tools and advanced imaging methods, UC Irvine researchers comprehensively characterized lipocartilages molecular biology, metabolism and structural role in skeletal tissues.

They also uncovered the genetic process that suppresses the activity of enzymes that break down fats and reduce the absorption of new fat molecules, effectively locking lipochondrocytess lipid reserves in place. When stripped of its lipids, the lipocartilage becomes stiff and brittle, highlighting the importance of its fat-filled cells in maintaining the tissues combination of durability and flexibility. In addition, the team noted that in some mammals, such as bats, lipochondrocytes assemble into intricate shapes, like parallel ridges in their oversized ears, which may enhance hearing acuity by modulating sound waves.

The discovery of the unique lipid biology of lipocartilage challenges long-standing assumptions in biomechanics and opens doors to countless research opportunities, said the studys lead author, Raul Ramos, a postdoctoral researcher in the Plikus laboratory for developmental and regenerative biology. Future directions include gaining an understanding of how lipochondrocytes maintain their stability over time and the molecular programs that govern their form and function, as well as insights into the mechanisms of cellular aging. Our findings underscore the versatility of lipids beyond metabolism and suggest new ways to harness their properties in tissue engineering and medicine.

The team included healthcare professionals and academics from the U.S., Australia, Belarus, Denmark, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, as well as staff from the Serrano Animal & Bird Hospital in Lake Forest and the Santa Ana Zoo. See the full list here.

This work was supported in part by the W.M. Keck Foundation under grant WMKF-5634988; UCI Beall Applied Innovation under Proof of Product grant IR-PR57179; LEO Foundation grants LF-AW-RAM-19-400008 and LF-OC-20-000611; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant AN-0000000062; Horizon Europe grant 101137006; National Institutes of Health grants U01-AR073159, R01- AR079470, R01-AR079150, R21-AR078939, P30-AR075047, R01-AR078389-01, R01-DE015038, R01-AR071457, R01-AR067821, R01GM152494, R01DE030565, TL1-TR001415, R01-DE013828, R01- DE30565, R01-HD073182, R01-AR067797, R01-DE017914 and MBRS-IMSD training grant GM055246; National Science Foundation grants DMS1951144, IOS-2421118, DMS1763272, CBET2134916, NSF-GRFP DGE-1321846 and MCB 2028424. Additional backing came from Simons Foundation grant 594598, the Yoshida Scholarship Foundation, a Howard A. Scheiderman Fellowship Award, the Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research at Baylor College of Medicine, the UC Riverside School of Medicine Deans Postdoc to Faculty Program and the Danish Cancer Society.

About UC Irvines Brilliant Future campaign:Publicly launched on Oct. 4, 2019, the Brilliant Future campaign aims to raise awareness and support for UC Irvine. By engaging 75,000 alumni and garnering $2 billion in philanthropic investment, UC Irvine seeks to reach new heights of excellence instudent success, health and wellness, research and more. The Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences plays a vital role in the success of the campaign. Learn more by visitinghttps://brilliantfuture.uci.edu/school-of-biological-sciences.

About the University of California, Irvine:Founded in 1965, UC Irvine is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nations top 10 public universities byU.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced five Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UC Irvine has more than 36,000 students and offers 224 degree programs. Its located in one of the worlds safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange Countys second-largest employer, contributing $7 billion annually to the local economy and $8 billion statewide.For more on UC Irvine, visitwww.uci.edu.

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Entos Pharmaceuticals Awarded $4 Million USD in Funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for its Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy Program  Business Wire

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Adia Nutrition Officially Enters $15.1 Billion Global Stem Cell Market with Domestic Treatments by Successful Opening of First Florida Location  Yahoo Finance

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January 27th, 2025 2:57 am

Common symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis include:

RA affects people differently. In some people, RA starts with mild or moderate inflammation affecting just a few joints. However, if it is not treated or the treatments are not working, RA can worsen and affect more joints. This can lead to more damage and disability.

At times, RA symptoms worsen in flares due to a trigger such as stress, environmental factors (such as cigarette smoke or viral infections), too much activity, or suddenly stopping medications. In some cases, there may be no clear cause.

The goal of treatment is to control the disease so it is in remission or near remission, with no signs or symptoms of the disease.

Rheumatoid arthritis can cause other medical problems, such as:

Rheumatoid arthritis can happen in any joint; however, it is more common in the wrists, hands, and feet. The symptoms often happen on both sides of the body, in a symmetrical pattern. For example, if you have RA in the right hand, you may also have it in the left hand.

RA affects people differently. In some people, RA starts with mild or moderate inflammation affecting just a few joints. However, if it is not treated or the treatments are not working, RA can worsen and affect more joints. This can lead to more damage and disability.

At times, RA symptoms worsen in flares due to a trigger such as stress, environmental factors (such as cigarette smoke or viral infections), too much activity, or suddenly stopping medications. In some cases, there may be no clear cause.

The goal of treatment is to control the disease so it is in remission or near remission, with no signs or symptoms of the disease.

Rheumatoid arthritis can cause other medical problems, such as:

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What Is Arthritis?

When people talk about having arthritis, they are usually talkingabout problems with their joints. The problems can affect any joint in the body, including:

There are many different types of arthritis with different causes and treatments. This webpage is going to give you information and tips on living with osteoarthritis (OA). It is the most common type of arthritis and is more common in older people.

OA can be painful, but there are things you can do to feel better. By learning about the disease and taking part in your care, you can learn to manage the symptoms to help you live an active lifestyle.

For more information about OA and other types of arthritis, please browse the NIAMS Health Topics.

When you have OA, you may feel:

Pain and other joint symptoms may lead you to feel tired, have problems sleeping, and feel depressed.

Remember, there are things you can do to help improve your joint pain and stiffness. It is important to visit your doctor, who can suggest and prescribe treatments that may lessen your pain and help you feel better. Be sure to keep track of your symptoms so your doctor has a full picture of what you are feeling. Also, bring a list of medications and supplements you take to your doctor appointment. Download the PDF at the top of this page for a printable booklet that includes tools such as a medication tracker, symptom tracker, and daily activity tracker.

There is no one test that shows if you have OA. Your doctor may:

The goals of your treatment may include:

You may see several types of doctors for your OA, including your family doctor, a rheumatologist, or other specialists who can work with you to treat your joint problems.

Treating OA usually includes:

Some people may need medications to help manage the symptoms of OA. Your doctor may recommend surgery if your joint problems are severe and all other treatments tried have not helped. However, surgery is not right for everyone, and your doctor will help you decide if its best for you.

You may hear or read about other types of therapies to help treat your OA. For example:

Before taking any medicines or using other therapies, talk to your doctor.

There are many things you can do to help manage and live with OA. Start by working with your doctor to set up a treatment plan that works for you.

Learning as much as you can about OA from reliable sources can help, too. Some people find it helpful to take a class or talk with a community health worker to learn about the disease and how to manage the symptoms to allow you to live an active lifestyle.

You may feel sadness or frustration when living with osteoarthritis. But keep in mind, many people with this disease live full lives. You may find it helpful to look for a support group, online or in your community. Support groups can help you connect with others living with OA, and offer tips on how to manage your joint problems.

For a list of possible organizations to contact, see the Other Resources section below.

Here are some other tips that may help:

Scientists supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are working to find out what causes OA and other forms of arthritis and how they can best be treated.

Researchers are looking at these issues:

In addition, studies continue to:

A clinical trial is a type of research study that involves people who volunteer to take part in it. Most clinical trials test a new treatment for a health problem, like a new drug or diet. Clinical trials help doctors learn if a new treatment is better, the same, or worse than standard care. Other clinical trials test ways to prevent a disease or find it early.

Talk to your doctor about whether a clinical trial would be right for you. When you volunteer to take part in clinical research, you help doctors and researchers learn more about arthritis.

Also, when you participate in a study, you may have the chance to receive the newest treatment and have additional care from the clinical trial staff.

To learn more about the basics of participating in a clinical trial, visit the website NIH Clinical Research Trials and You.

At that website you will find:

To hear from people who have taken part in clinical studies led by NIAMS researchers, watch these videos.

National Institutes of Health 1 AMS CircleBethesda, MD 20892-3675Phone: 301-495-4484Toll free: 877-22-NIAMS (226-4267). For telecommunications support, dial 711Fax: 301-718-6366Email: [emailprotected]Website: niams.nih.gov

Find more information about osteoarthritis.

If you need more information about available resources in your language or another language, please visit our website or contact the NIAMS Information Clearinghouse.

U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationToll free: 888-INFO-FDA (888-463-6332)

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

National Institute on Aging

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

American College of Rheumatology

American Physical Therapy Association

Arthritis Foundation

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