Are engineered organs finally becoming reality in medicine?
Published Thursday 6 July 2017
By Yella Hewings-Martin, PhD
The bowel is difficult to repair, owing to the complexity of the processes it normally performs.
The concept behind tissue engineering is simple: grow the patient's stem cells in the laboratory, add them to a scaffold material, and you have a laboratory-grown organ. But few patients have benefited from this technology so far. Could change be on the horizon?
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