First Synthetic Organ Implanted

A doctor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, dips a specially constructed biodegradable mold—shaped like a bladder and seeded with human bladder cells—into a growth solution on March 30, 2006. In a medical first, working lab-grown transplant organs have been made from a patient’s own cells.

ARTICLE (National Geographic) LINK [Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine]