Are Engineered Organs Finally Becoming Reality in Medicine?

Are Engineered Organs Finally Becoming Reality in Medicine?
Sammy Jo Hester/The Daily Herald via AP

The concept behind tissue engineering is simple: grow the patient's stem cells in the laboratory, add them to a scaffold material, and you have a laboratory-grown organ. But few patients have benefited from this technology so far. Could change be on the horizon?



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