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| Photo: Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
Associated Press
BOSTON - The once-fanciful dream of regrowing the heart and other failing organs has suddenly edged closer to reality: The first complex organ, the bladder, has been rebuilt in seven patients from living tissue cultivated in the lab.
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| Photo: Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
Washington Post
By Rick Weiss
Researchers said yesterday that they have grown complete urinary bladders in a laboratory and transplanted them into patients, improving their health and achieving a Holy Grail of medicine: the first cultivation of working replacements for failing solid organs in people.
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Q&A on exstrophy of the bladder with Joseph Borer, MD, Alan Retik, MD, and Rosemary Grant, RN.
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