Bladders engineered in the laboratory from patients' own cells and then implanted into the body have succeeded in their first clinical trial.
The feat was accomplished by Anthony Atala, at Wake Forest University Medical School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his colleagues. He says that while scientists have had success with skin transplants grown on scaffolds in the past, this is the first time they have grown and transplanted a discrete, complex organ.
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