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Why are so important investigations being made worldwide in relation to regenerative medicine?
This was the question that has responded this afternoon researcher Juan Carlos Izpisua, during the closing conference of the First International Congress on Quality of Life and Longevity, organized by the Catholic University of Murcia and the Hispanic Foundation for Osteoporosis and Diseases metabolic Bone.
And in the field of regenerative medicine, Izpisua has stressed the need to produce cells, tissues or organs in the laboratory, since "the number of organs that are needed is not enough today with the donation. During his presentation he has lectured on the possible generation of human cells and organs in other animals, as well as the use of techniques that allow us to fix genes that have been broken, and that make our cells do not work. "the production of human cells into animals they could be used as transplant material for those cells or organs to stop working, "he has said and has stressed that research in this field are at a key moment.
Objective: To cure
On the future of regenerative medicine, the researcher has argued that it is directed towards the use of cells, "and fix our genome that breaks with the passage of time."
"In recent years we have developed in reference to the world scientific techniques that allow us to copy and paste sequences of DNA in our cells to replace evil with good," he has said, but warned of the need for the use of these new techniques to heal and not to generate new forms.
The Spanish scientist Juan Carlos Izpisua, besides being Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCAM, is extraordinary professor of Developmental Biology of the Murcian institution, and leads the research with which it is intended to obtain human organs in pigs for transplantation in sick, work promoted by the Catholic University of Murcia and developed by a team of scientists from the United States and Spain.
Cancer and olive oil
Notably one of the presentations held during the morning, imparted by the researcher Eduard Escrich, a member of the multidisciplinary group for the study of breast cancer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​who has lectured on scientific evidence that has led them to demonstrate that there is a relationship between extra virgin olive oil and prevention of this disease.
Escric has shown that experimental studies are carried out with rats, extra virgin olive oil, which is working with offers some protection against breast cancer.
"In general, tumors are less malignant than other fats," he says, adding that against omegas 6, which are seed oils, excess, "cancer is stimulated in a very important way."
Eduard Escrich has stressed that there are no adverse health food, but it is the wrong use made of it what makes it bad;
and in this regard it has stressed that currently "we eat too much, and too much has to do with breast cancer."
Source: UCAM
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