Sentences with phrase «create replacement organs»

Professor Julian Chaudhuri, a researcher in tissue engineering at Bath University, said that the inability to create working small blood vessels in the laboratory was one of the major obstacles to efforts to create replacement organs outside the body.

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The future is bright for the field, Carden believes, and the day will arrive when a patient's own cells will be used with the printing technique to create new replacement organs.

On - demand replacement body parts inched closer to reality with the announcement from San Diego biotech company Organovo that its organ «printer» had created the first artificial blood vessel made entirely from human cells, with no synthetic scaffolding.

Japanese stem cell biologist Hiromitsu Nakauchi is pioneering a technique that ultimately aims to implant human pluripotent cells into pig embryos to create replacement human tissues and organs.

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.

He added that, aside from the hope of creating replacement tissues and organs for patients, the work could help scientists understand how to tackle unwanted blood vessel growth, such as that found in tumours.