Table 1 Progress in the field of regenerative medicine

First cell transplantation: Bone marrow transplant (1968)

[116]

Discovery of stem cells in human cord blood (1978)

[117]

First engineered tissue transplantation: skin (1981)

[118]

First in vitro stem cell line developed from mice (1981)

[119]

First engineered vessel structure was synthesized (1986)

[120]

Adult stem cells were used for vascular regeneration by Asahara (1997)

[121]

Isolation of human embryonic stem cells (1998)

[122]

First laboratory-grown organ: an artificial bladder implanted in a patient suffering from myelomeningocele (1999)

[123]

Implantation of first engineered tubular organs (urine conduits) (2004)

[124]

Discovery of stem cells derived from amniotic fluid and placenta (2007)

[125]

First solid organ engineered by recycling donor liver (2009)

[123]

3D-printed vascular networks direct therapeutic angiogenesis in ischemic condition (2017)

[126]