Biosomatic Cellular Engineering

Stem cells have been in the limelight since the time its potential was discovered and there are several stem cell researches going on round the world including biosomatic cellular engineering. Stem cells have been recognized to be used to heal wounds, repair aging, replace organs, overcoming traumatic injuries and even can be said to stop death as a whole through biosomatic cellular engineering. It could be used positively to lengthen and strengthen life. Stem cells are unspecialized cells which can reproduce unendingly for a long period of time. They can be triggered at any point of their growth to become specialized cells like tissues or even organs. 

Biosomatic cellular engineering has come as a new division of science which aims to prolong the life of tissue by using young stem cells.

Aging is one of the most prominent human processes and Biosomatic cellular engineering aims that aging and looks unto human stem cells to act against aging and retain the youthfulness of the organism. There are basically three kinds of stem cells, the embryonic stem cell, embryonic germ cell and adult stem cell. To date, it has been the embryonic stem cells which are widely used in researches aimed at disease cure and aging as they are pluripotent. Adult stem cells are not pluripotent and can only generate certain cell types according to their genetic coding. Even isolating and replicating them in a laboratory conditions is a difficult task, making adult stem cell the least desirable for research purposes.

Biosomatic cellular engineering is a branch of science that devices newer techniques and ways by which the adult stem cells can be produced in lab conditions. The adult stem cell thus produced via biosomatic cellular engineering should be able to have all the properties like embryonic stem cells and does not induce cancer through biosomatic cellular engineering. This aims at producing a universal bank for adult stem cell that does not contain any kind of antigen. In the absence of antigen, the body will not reject the stem cells during transplantation. Later, for the stem cell to be accepted by the recipient, back HLA and other specific antigens can be used. This is a simple hypothesis for making it possible that adult stem cells can fight aging supporting the cause of biosomatic cellular engineering. There are several researches being carried out in biosomatic cellular engineering, in collaboration with organ printing, nanotechnology and synthetic biology to make this thesis a reality.

There are several restrictions and limitations for the usage of embryonic stem cells. There have been several reported cases where foetal stem cell transplantation lead to cancer in the patient. Foetal stem cells were found to have high potential in treating several diseases and yet scientists had raised concern over using the technique as there remained possibilities that stem cells injected into an organism could replicate and lead to tumour formation. With biosomatic cellular engineering, this chance of tumour formation could be avoided as adult stem cells do not proliferate quickly like foetal stem cells. Studies are being conducted in biosomatic cellular engineering, where adult stem cells are being used to treat stroke by injecting adult stem cells into the brain. They go to their specific site and bring about tissue repair and once the job is done, they die off rather than proliferate.

Muscle deterioration is one of the signs of aging and with biosomatic cellular engineering, muscle adult stem cells when injected into the organism can make the muscle strong and thus halt the aging of the muscles. The muscle stem cells carry out muscle repair function and on reinjection, they perform the same job when experiments were conducted on mice. The same when applied to every aspect of aging can be very useful in preventing the whole process of aging through biosomatic cellular engineering.