Regenerative Medicine Research: striving to better serve the emerging field

Regenerative Medicine Research, previously published by BioMed Central, is now transferred to its new publisher, EDP Sciences. As the Editor-in-Chief, I am excited to announce the continuation of this new open access, online journal. It remains to publish research relating to both the fundamental and practical aspects of regenerative medicine, with a particular emphasis on translational studies. Regenerative medicine is an emerging field with the potential to empower medical research and practice. The process of tissue regeneration is essential to many organisms for a healthy life, from the highly studied axolotl, to us as human beings. In many ways regenerative medicine has become the leading edge of biomedical research and clinical practice, due to its key implications for the treatment of increasingly prevalent diseases, such as heart disease. The field is in the infant stage of its development but it is growing at a fast pace. However, comprehensive information or research data on regenerative medicine cannot presently be efficiently gathered, but can only be scrutinized through a diversity of different journals in various fields. Regenerative medicine is, by current definition [1], the process of creating living, functional