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Growing New Organs
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, June 25, 2009.
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At a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ali Khademhosseini and a Harvard Medical School team are at the forefront of research in generating new organs.
This might sound like a B-grade horror movie, but the science of engineering bladders, corneas, bronchial tubes and blood vessels has come a long way in the past decade.
We called Dr. Khademhosseini to tell us about the almost inconceivable work being done in his lab. We asked him to explain the process researchers use to generate tissue.
Scientific American: How to Grow New Organs
(Photo by April Gazmen via Flickr/Creative Commons)
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