Medical science spends time and treasure preventing human organs from failing and then coping when they do. Sometime this century, medicine may achieve the ultimate game-changer — construction and implantation of replacement organs with no need for donors or fear of rejection.
That goal may be decades in the future, but a Texas start-up company hopes to take a significant intermediate step toward that dream. In the next few years TeVido BioDevices hopes to grow a mastectomy patient's cells into a living nipple-areola combination and transplant it onto her reconstructed breast.
