Special Report

FT Health: Regenerative Medicine

Rapid advances in technology from bioelectronics to gene therapy offer new ways to treat many illnesses. But medical breakthroughs bring with them new questions of pricing, access and scientific responsibility

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Science fiction becomes science fact

‘Neural laces’ linking the brain to computers offer new scope for treatments

Pioneering facility catapults UK to forefront of cell and gene therapy

Industry cluster aims to get inventions commercialised at home rather than in US

Regenerative medicine at a critical juncture

Margaret Hamburg on the intersection of science and responsibility

Biotech companies defend prices of one-off gene therapy

Latest treatments with price tags as high as $2m require new financing models

Gene therapy offers new vision to battle blindness

Single treatment using advanced microsurgery can cure condition for life

3D printing could build human organs from scratch

Replacement skin, livers and bladders on horizon

Organoid innovation offers potential for cancer research

Mini-organs grown from human stem cells can test drug effectiveness

Gene editing heralds new era of animal-to-human transplants

Biotechs race to serve patients stuck on waiting lists for organs