More good news on transplants
April 4, 2006 7:06 AM
Categories: Science
American scientists from North Carolina’s Wake Forest University have implanted the first laboratory-engineered organs, grown from the patients’ own cells.
To grow new bladder tissue, his team biopsied cells from the muscle and lining of the bladder walls in individual patients. These cells were cultured in the lab, then seeded onto a specially constructed, biodegradable mould, or scaffold, shaped like a bladder.
won't help us, but hopefully alot of others!!