Lab-Grown Bladder Transplanted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 4, 2006 @03:21AM from the bet-that's-a-relief dept.

JaJ_D writes "The BBC is reporting a story about the successful transplant of a lab grown bladder into a patient. From the article: 'US scientists have successfully implanted bladders grown in the lab from patients' own cells into people with bladder disease ... They took a bladder biopsy from each patient and isolated muscle cells and special bladder cells called urothelial cells, which they grew in the lab. The cells were then placed onto a specially designed bladder-shaped scaffold and left to grow for seven to eight weeks.'"

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unneccessary and complicated by Thud457 · 2006-04-04 03:47 · Score: 0, Troll

why are these scienticians wasting so much time and effort when we have perfectly good baboon bladders lying all over the place?

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