Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.

Number one, there is such a thing as a skeletal stem cell- skeletal stem cell that builds up the entire vertebrate skeleton, bone, cartilage and the fibrous elements of skeleton...So really the question was, were we looking for a pill when we should have really been looking for a cell.