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Science fiction films have always shown some of the most fascinating technologies ever to cross man’s imagination. It might be easy to dismiss a lot of them as nothing more than flights of fancy, but if you stop and think about it just for a second, you realize that a lot of today’s most common technologies were once featured in science fiction. Over a hundred years ago, people believed space travel to be fiction, but now, the idea of passenger flights into space are hardly a laughing matter. Screens that can project people’s faces across the world once were sheer imagination, but now we all carry one in our pocket.
Perhaps science fiction is a mirror into the future. If so, this bodes well for the future of medicine. After all, some of the most fascinating technologies shown in science fiction have to do with treating the sick and injured. It’s always amazing to watch a movie’s protagonist heal almost instantly with the application of some space-age cream or a blast of a proton beam.
But what if speedier recoveries weren’t so far off into the future? Scientists and doctors are actively searching out new treatments that can get patients out of the hospital sooner and with better outcomes. One of these treatments that they’re looking into is the peptide Thymosin Beta 4.
With a name like Thymosin Beta 4, it sounds right at home in a science fiction film, but it’s made right inside our bodies. Thymosin Beta 4 is a peptide (a short chain of amino acids) synthesized naturally by our thymus. It has a couple of very important jobs in the body, including promoting the production of T cells, one of the most important parts of our immune system; promoting skin, muscle, and blood vessel cells to regenerate; and triggering heart tissues to migrate. This doesn’t mean it causes your heart to move but that it brings new cells into the heart, helping it to heal.
Thanks to its abilities to cause new cellular generation, Thymosin Beta 4 is currently a candidate for a lot of research. Scientists want to know if it can be used to help rebuild damaged arteries, cardiovascular cells, and more general physical wounds. Perhaps, in the future, Thymosin Beta 4 could very well be the space-age cream that heals patients instantly.
To be completely honest and transparent, researchers are not one-hundred percent certain how Thymosin Beta 4 encourages cellular regeneration, but they believe it has to do with how it communicates with other cells. Research in the last decade has suggested that Thymosin Beta 4 might act as a link between cells, like a switchboard operator connecting lines. As it brings cells together, they can begin growing and then move to where they are needed for restoring tissues.
The amazing thing about Thymosin Beta 4 that fits it right into science fiction is how on-the-forefront it is. Even as recently as this year, new studies have been published exploring how Thymosin Beta 4 works and can be used in clinical studies. As we go forward into the future, it will be fascinating to see just how far scientists can take it. Perhaps this really could be a “magic” cure.
If you are interested in learning more about Thymosin Beta 4, we recommend keeping a close eye out for it in the news. This is exciting new stuff, and it could soon be on the front page of your latest medical journal or even newsprint!
