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First Synthetic Organ Implanted

A doctor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, dips a specially constructed biodegradable mold—shaped like a bladder and seeded with human bladder cells—into a growth solution on March 30, 2006. In a medical first, working lab-grown transplant organs have been made from a patient’s own cells.

ARTICLE (National Geographic)
LINK [Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine]

4 comments

  1. james quickly 10 November, 08 @ 5:26 am

    this is propper sickk!!!!!!!!

  2. Jeffman 10 November, 08 @ 5:27 am

    I love bladders.
    I love my life.

    Plastic is my favourite material.

  3. barba bush 10 November, 08 @ 5:28 am

    this is discusting and wrong

  4. Mathew Gregg 18 December, 08 @ 12:51 am

    I think this is fucking fantastic. AMAZING… I can’t wait to see what the future might hold.

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