Developing Transplantable Bioengineered Forelimbs A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has made…
Developing Transplantable Bioengineered Forelimbs
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has made the first steps towards development of bioartificial replacement limbs suitable for transplantation. In their report, which has been published online in the journal Biomaterials, the researchers describe using an experimental approach previously used to build bioartificial organs to engineer rat forelimbs with functioning vascular and muscle tissue. They also provided evidence that the same approach could be applied to the limbs of primates
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*That’s extremely interesting, but I really kinda wish I hadn’t seen that