Understanding Transplantation
“Transplantation” in the medical field is defined as “the process of taking living tissue such as stem cells or organs and implanting them in another part of the body or in another body”. The examples of transplantation of “cells” include ordinary blood transfusion and stem cell transplantation often used to treat blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphomas. This blog deals with the intricacies of the organ transplantation and was inspired by a recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in December 2021. The authors reviewed the state of art in organ transplantation and wondered if the factories manufacturing beating hearts and inflating and deflating lungs were around the corner? The stem cells (parent cells) that have the capacity to make a variety of tissues in our bodies, have successfully been coaxed to grow in the test tubes and petri dishes to grow into sheet of cells to resemble skin or tubular structures that have been used as replacements fo...