Alan Russell: The potential of regenerative medicine

Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury by helping the body to rebuild itself. He shows how engineered tissue that speaks the body s language has helped a man regrow his lost fingertip, how stem cells can rebuild damaged heart muscle, and how cell therapy can regenerate the skin of burned soldiers. This new, lowimpact medicine comes just in time, Russell says our aging population, with its steeply rising medical bills, w