Lab-grown organ breakthrough
Today there is hope for many who need a transplant..
In a Boston laboratory, a rat kidney had been stripped of its cells, leaving just this white scaffold.
Then the organ was reseeded with fresh cells and put into another rat. It filtered the animal's blood
and produced urine.
The results are promising but human trials are still a long way off.
The results are promising but human trials are still a long way off.
new words
transplant
a new organ put into someone's body when the old organ fails
kidney
organ that takes away waste from the blood and produces
urine
stripped of
had its parts removed
scaffold
structure that helps something to keep its shape
reseeded
here, had new cells added which multiply to fill the whole organ
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