On
November 9th, Torie Bosch wrote an article about the current progress
of regenerative medicine research. Bosch opens her article with a statistic
about the number of people waiting for a transplant and gives and speculates on
the idea of regenerating our own organs or even printing them. She includes
quotes from an interview with Antony Atala, one of the main researchers on the
subject. Atala uses a comparison with salamander which can grow some of their
own organs by themselves and gives an example of how his team was able to heal
burns with a spray of cells to show how his project has been improving to help
people. He also gives details about a project “to create rapid treatment for
soldiers wounded on the battlefield.” Lastly, Bosch answers her question (“how
long until regenerative medicine can make the agonizingly long transplant
waiting list a thing of the past?”) by explaining how long is the process to
approve new medicine and predicts that it will take more than 15 and a half
years to start using regenerative medicine even with the help
of Office of Combined Products.
The author’s purpose in writing this article was to
show her readers that regenerative medicine has advanced a lot and is closer to
being used with the public. However, this process is slow and there is still a
long time to approve it. She gives several good examples to show how it has
been progressing by starting with relatively simple examples to more complex
ones. She uses several questions she answers herself throughout the article. Referencing
to a TED talk in 2010 and mentioning some of Anthony Atala’s background as well
as companies he is working with, Bosch supports the credibility of the expert
she interviews in her article and consequently the information she presents.
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