Scientists engineer new organs using a patients own cells!

[The Peon]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/engineered.organs/index.html

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190395,00.html

 

Rock on dudes!

[Martin]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/engineered.organs/index.html

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That's pretty interesting. thanks for the link!

[bascule]

I was just about to post that story

[DrZoidberg]

Sounds promising, however the details are sketchy i.e. growing a 3D organ from a monolayer of bladder cells - interested to find more on this. Can foresee potential problems already with an organ bank i.e. staff transplanting organs into wrong hosts!

[mattbimbo]

maybe i could have a bladder in an alternatively shape? perhaps something like this

[DrZoidberg]

Sounds promising, however the details are sketchy i.e. growing a 3D organ from a monolayer of bladder cells - interested to find more on this. Can foresee potential problems already with an organ bank i.e. staff transplanting organs into wrong hosts!

 

Ahhh, go to lancet and download the paper, fascinating methods used, painstaking work to reform a dual layer of tissue (smooth muscle and urethrial cells) about an organ shaped scaffold.

[Martin]

Ahhh, go to lancet and download the paper, fascinating methods used, painstaking work to reform a dual layer of tissue (smooth muscle and urethrial cells) about an organ shaped scaffold.

 

Good lead:

http://www.thelancet.com/

 

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