What has this last year delivered for medicine and health, and has 2013 shone more light on an area that interests you? Perhaps there has been radical change affecting a particular medical condition this year. Could it even be that medicine as a whole took a big step forward over the last 12 months?
The medical community has certainly reported major changes and offered many glimpses into tomorrow's world - and 2014 could be just as exciting.
This passing year happens to mark MNT's first decade on the web. So, with a theme connecting medicine today, yesterday and tomorrow, this is the Medical News Today end-of-year review for 2013.
Making body parts
Would it have been possible back in 2003 to imagine the reality of 3D printing 10 years later, let alone that it could help in the creation of an artificial human ear?
Another area that offers hope for tissue engineering (among many other potential benefits) is stem cell research. But, beset with scientific struggle and ethical controversy, stem cell developments have not emerged so smoothly in the last 10 years.
There was a big moment in 2013, however, when body cells were at last successfully turned into human embryonic stem cells for the very first time.
This gives reality to the prospect of cloning human tissue to fix the body - but it also reminds us of the fear that someone, somehow, could possibly clone a whole human.
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