Tissue engineers hope to one
day grow organs on polymer foam scaffoldings, much as topiary gardeners grow animal - shaped bushes on elaborate trellises.
Not exact matches
Another is to use the rules of tissue growth we learn with these models to one
day grow complete
organs.»
View the video A tiny cluster of lab -
grown human cells that sprouts into liver tissue could one
day nix the need for
organ donors.
ig embryos that had been injected with human stem cells when they were only a few
days old began to
grow organs containing human cells, scientists reported on Thursday, an advance that promises — or threatens — to bring closer the routine production of creatures that are part human and part something else.
These human - pig «chimeras» were not allowed to develop past the fetal stage, but the experiment suggests such creations could eventually be used to
grow fully human
organs for transplant, easing the fatal shortage of
organs: 120,000 people in the United States are waiting for lifesaving transplants, but every
day two dozen die before they get them.