Bioengineered kidney makes urine after transplantation
Nature. 14 Apr 2013
http://blogs.nature.com/spoonful/2013/04/bioengineered-kidney-makes-urine-after-transplantation.html
Here’s research that could take the piss out of disease—and it’s no joke. For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation.
If the work can be replicated in humans, patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease could one day have “an organ that’s grown on demand—a tailored organ that can be transplanted and replaces the failing organ,” says study author Harald Ott, a bioengineer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
