Source: Reuters
Posted: Mon Apr 3, 2006 11:32 PM BST
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Custom-made bladders grown from patients' own cells have been successfully transplanted and work, in some cases for years, scientists reported on Monday.
Writing in a special report in the Lancet medical journal, they described the cases of seven patients who had new bladders engineered from a plug of tissue grown from their own, dysfunctional bladders.
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