Not exact matches
«A new
organ was
created out of normal
structures of the skin, made to detoxify the dioxin,» says Jean - Hilaire Saurat, the dermatologist heading the team that treated Yushchenko at the Swiss Centre for Human Applied Toxicology in Geneva.
To determine whether endothelial cells — the cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels — directly influence breast cancer cell growth, they then
created unique organotypic models of lung and bone marrow microvascular niches, in which endothelial cells formed blood vessel - like
structures in culture as they would in the original
organ.
The new, simplified
organ - printing system developed by Anthony Atala and his team is hard at work
creating a jawbone
structure.
«We generate a pattern of an
organ that we want,
creating a 3D hollowed - out
structure, stick it on a piece of glass, then we can introduce a lot of different cell types,» Gillrie says.
Before scientists and engineers can realize the dream of using stem cells to
create replacements for worn out
organs and battle damaged body parts, they'll have to develop ways to grow complex three - dimensional
structures in large volumes and at costs that won't bankrupt health care systems.