ところが、最近記事 「Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the millions of fat cells removed during liposuction can be easily and quickly turned into induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, more easily than the skin cells that researchers used when the first iPS cells were created in 2007.」 にあるように、
「These iPS cells, like stem cells derived from embryos, can be turned into many different kinds of cells, and researchers believe they eventually could be used to regenerate tissue for organs and repair damage.」 と記事にあるように、多くの医療者や研究者が、"regenerate tissue for organs(臓器組織の再生をする)"や"repair damage(被害や破壊の修復をする)"といったことで期待を高めているものだそうです。
これからはむやみにダイエットには走らず、記事の冒頭にある 「You know that fat in your body you wish you didn't have? It turns out those cells could be used to create stem cells that one day may be able to cure disease.」