Spare organs from the patient's cells: watch and listen

Snob Magazine made a simultaneous translation of a lecture by Anthony Atala, director of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine in Wake Forest (this is in North Carolina). In 1999, for the first time, he was able to grow and successfully implant a human organ - the bladder.

Today, Wake Forest is working on the creation of almost all organs and tissues that exist in the human body. To eliminate the risk of rejection, organs are trying to grow from patients' own cells. And not stem cells, but taken from a damaged organ – so that they immediately know where they come from.

In his lecture, Anthony Atala tells and shows how they do it all. For example, cells are applied to a special substrate, which decomposes after a new organ takes root in the body, and the story of how such substrates are made captures like a detective. Cells can be applied to the substrate in various ways – even with a conventional printer. And so that a muscle grown in the laboratory (for example, a heart muscle) after transplantation knows what it needs to do, it is specially trained.

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