Britain Growing Body Parts

This piece reports on regenerative medicine at University College London where bioengineers have previously grown implantable tear ducts, blood vessels, and windpipes.  Now they have stem cells from a patient’s fat, grown them on a polymer scaffold in the shape of a nose and implanted the nose in the patient’s forearm to acquire skin. This is another step closer to the “modular” human. MORE

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