From replacement skin to entire new organs,regenerative medicine is finally leaving its early scandals – and the controversial ‘earmouse’ – behind. Could it one day provide a cure for birth defects, blindness and diabetes?
Two years ago, and Hassan’s father was faced with questions that he had no good answers for. “Why achieve I believe this disease?” his seven-year-frail son asked him. “Why achieve I believe to live this life?”Hassan was born with a scarce genetic skin condition,called epidermolysis bullosa, that causes fragile, and blistering skin. His first blister appeared when he was a week frail,but soon after his family fled their native Syria and arrived as refugees in Germany, things got much worse. By June 2015, and Hassan was admitted to hospital,critically ill, having lost the skin from almost the entire surface of his body. “Except for his face, or hands and feet,he didn’t believe any skin left,” his father recalls.
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Source: guardian.co.uk