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http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060403/full/060403-3.html
I never thought I would see organ produce this early in my lifetime. This is amazing.
A team of scientists has grown human bladder sacs in the laboratory and successfully transplanted them into people.
It is the first time that a complicated internal organ, rather than a scrap of skin or other tissue, has been grown in the lab and placed into people. The researchers say that they are already working on growing tailor-made kidneys, livers or hearts that might bypass the shortage of donor organs and problems with organ rejection.
I never thought I would see organ produce this early in my lifetime. This is amazing.