Dienstag, 16. April 2013

This Bioengineered Rat Kidney Could Pave The Way For On-Demand Replacement Organs

The big news in bioengineering this week is all about a tiny pool of rat pee.


Your kidneys may be the hardest body parts to duplicate, but maybe doctors just need a template to fill out.

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have built a functional engineered rat kidney, washed clean of its former cells and re-seeded with fresh ones, and transplanted it into a live rat. The engineered kidney can produce urine and expel it through a ureter, and it didn’t produce any blood clots.

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