Frieden announced today that their testing has revealed that smallpox in at least two of the vials was alive and has been
successfully grown in the lab — underscoring that smallpox is viable for decades.
Not exact matches
Researchers report
in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A that they
successfully grew cartilage around carbon nanotubes
in their
lab — and are optimistic that one day they will be able to duplicate the feat inside the human body.
But two years ago, tissue engineers
in Europe
successfully implanted a
lab -
grown left bronchus into a woman with severe injuries.
Anthony Atala, a surgeon and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine
in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, reported that artificial bladders can be
grown in the
lab from a patient's own cells and
successfully implanted.
This is how most antibiotics
in use today were discovered, but finding new drugs has proven difficult because only a tiny proportion of bacteria isolated from soil
grow successfully in the
lab under normal culturing conditions.