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14 Apr 2013 15:28 #130429
by chairman
A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has engineered functional rat kidneys by stripping donor kidneys of their cells and then repopulating the remaining collagen substructures with new cells. The bioengineered kidneys produced urine in laboratory dishes and when implanted in living animals.
The advance could be good news for the 100,000 Americans waiting for donor kidneys for transplant, because it suggests that someday scientists might be able to grow custom-made kidneys for people, using a patient's own cells to seed tissues, said Dr. Harald Ott, a researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior author of a paper describing the discovery published online Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine.
“My goal was to show it’s possible,†said Ott, who previously created bioengineered rat lungs and rat hearts using the same technique.
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14 Apr 2013 22:02 #130461
by Kwami
Can someone tell me if they have found a cure for a single medical condition or disease in the last 30 years, Viagara excepted . They are not in the buisness to find cures but rather to develop drugs to control medical conditions and the patient will buy drugs for the rest of their lives
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