Current Stem Cell Technologies Used in Medicine

The document from December 2020 reviewed the advancements in stem cell technologies and their applications in medicine. It discussed newly discovered sources of stem cell acquisition and the progress in scientific methods such as 3D printing and transdifferentiation. The paper also presented genome editing technologies like transcription activator-like effector nuclease, zinc-finger nucleases, and CRISPR Cas9. The use of stem cells in disease treatment and tissue reconstruction was found to be mostly effective due to their high proliferation and differentiation potentials. The document cited pre-clinical and clinical studies where stem cells were used for treating diseases like peripheral nerve palsy, myocardial infarction, heart ischemic disease, and for corneal wound healing.