For most of modern medical history, treatment has meant managing disease, controlling symptoms, slowing progression, and buying time. Regenerative medicine flips that model on its head. Instead of managing damage, it aims to repair it: regrowing tissue, replacing diseased cells, and in some cases, reversing conditions once considered permanent. What was once confined to research labs and speculative science fiction is now a fast-moving commercial reality. Cell therapies are curing certain blood cancers. Gene therapies are restoring vision and correcting inherited disorders with a single infusion. Tissue-engineered scaffolds are helping patients regrow cartilage instea...
