300 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 355-6000 Clinical Services (Center for Bladder Exstrophy Care & Support Group): In the News Lab-grown organs are science fiction no longer 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. First Bladders Grown in Lab Transplanted 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. Children's Hospital Boston's Center for Exstrophy Q&A on exstrophy of the bladder with Joseph Borer, MD, Alan Retik, MD, and Rosemary Grant, RN. The information on this website should not be taken as medical advice, which can only be given to you by your personal health care professional. Copyright © Children's Hospital Boston. All rights reserved.