In a high - ceilinged laboratory at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., a gleaming white robot stitches up pig intestines. (sciencenews.org)
He tried it and, sure enough, his test dog was up and waiting for breakfast the day after it received the first of Badylak's pig intestine transplants. (discovermagazine.com)
Wayne Hellstrom of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and colleagues, extracted stem cells from fat and placed them onto layers of tissue taken from the lining of pig intestine. (newscientist.com)