Extrazelluläre Vesikel aus Menstruationsblutzellen zeigen das Potenzial, die Knorpelreparatur zu stimulieren

From the article:

„New research by an interdisciplinary team in Lithuania has revealed a promising and unconventional approach to cartilage regeneration. Using extracellular vesicles derived from menstrual blood stromal cells, the researchers demonstrated their potential to stimulate cartilage repair – paving the way for a future cell-free therapy for osteoarthritis.

More than 600 million people worldwide live with osteoarthritis, with around 73 per cent over age 55 and 60 per cent being female. With aging populations, rising obesity, and more injuries, osteoarthritis’s prevalence will keep growing.

Today’s clinical treatments mainly manage symptoms such as pain and inflammation, but none can halt or reverse cartilage degeneration. Regenerative medicine, based on the principles of stem cell technology and tissue engineering to replace or regenerate human tissues and organs and restore their functions, is therefore gaining momentum. Among the strategies, menstrual blood-derived cells have emerged as a more promising tool than bone marrow cells.“

Hmm. Maybe we should have started researching women’s health decades ago. I mean, it’d be great if women were seen as people and treated as such, but all that aside – 

 it sounds like our period blood could be used to all kinds of cures or treatments going forward … If only scientists hadn’t overlooked half the population cause they got grossed out…