3D Human Cells Grown

SR_melb writes writes to tell us that Melbourn researchers have, for the first time, managed to grow three dimensional human cells. This bypasses previous achievements of only being able to create two-dimensional constructions like skin. From the article: "Professor Wayne Morrison, from Melbourne's Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery has led the breakthrough. He says it's a world first and predicts the discovery will ultimately lead to the creation of human organs, including parts of the heart, by using the patients' own stem cells. Such a scenario, says Professor Morrison, would reduce the problem of immune rejection which is often associated with organ transplants."

Comments

As overheard in the lab.

[grub]

Intern: Professor Morrison, we've had over 800,000 similar requests for a replacement penis and hand!
Morrison: Ahhh, yes. News of our discovery must have made it to Slashdot!

3D cells?

[bohemian72]

Funny. I didn't realize there were any 2D human cells. Maybe that's how Flat Stanley was able to slide under the door.

Sold!

[Itninja]

FTA: Now, currently we have been able to make breast tissue...

Great, I'll take two please.

title a little misleading

[circletimessquare]

what the editor/ writer meant was "Human Cells Grown in a 3D Matrix"

that would have conveyed the substance of the story better, without idiots being confused and dorks laughing at the idiocy of the title, of which there is certainly to be a deluge of such comments

the title "4D Human Cells Grown" or "2D Human Cells Grown"... now that would have been interesting, as the laws of physics as we know them would have been breached, nevermind the laws of biology ;-)