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Rhiandmoi
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Warning, link has a picture of a lab grown bladder.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4871540.stm

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US scientists have successfully implanted bladders grown in the laboratory from patients' own cells into people with bladder disease.
ETA More articles:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-bladder4apr04,0,5032810.story?coll=la-story-footer
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/diseases/articles/2006/04/04/doctors_grow_bladder_cells_and_produce_rebuilt_organ/

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Neat. But the bladder is a fairly simple organ, and it sounds like they're using shortcuts to make something resembling a bladder. I'm not sure if they're really any closer to more complex organs like hearts and livers that are in higher demand for transplants.
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Yeah, the techniques they used here are not readily adaptable to the growth of say a heart,although thats not to knock the achivement. The true breakthrough occurs when we can push tissues through specific developmental pathways, rather than just providing a scaffold.

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