From Waste to Wonder: Menstrual Stem Cell Revolution
Authored by: Leslie Liu Art by: Julia Chen For many women, the arrival of a period is met with dread. It can feel like a gruesome and painful reminder of what our bodies do each month to signal that there is no baby on the way. What we discard as waste is often viewed with disgust, something to hide or endure quietly. Yet this very blood, long stigmatized and misunderstood, carries a powerful secret that has the potential to transform modern medicine: the ability to regrow skin, muscle, and...