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Published online 4 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060403-3
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Scientists grow bladder replacement in lab
Trial points way to engineered organs using patients' own cells.
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.
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