10多年前,日本科学家山中伸弥和其学生通过研究开发出了一种突破性的技术,能够将任何一种成体细胞转化成为多能干细胞,随后再使得这种新生的多能干细胞分化成为机体中不同类型的细胞,这种新技术为多项医学进展打开了大门,比如产生软骨组织来修复膝盖损伤,或者修饰视网膜细胞来改善年龄相关的黄斑变性和其它眼疾患者的视力,同时也能够对损伤的心脏组织进行修复。 More than a decade ago, Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka and his students developed a breakthrough technology that transformed any of the adult cells into pluripotent stem cells and later differentiated the newborn pluripotent stem cells into the body Different types of cells, the new technology opens the door for a number of medical advances, such as the production of cartilage tissue to repair knee damage, or the modification of retinal cells to improve age-related macular degeneration and other eye diseases in patients with vision, but also to damage The heart tissue is repaired.