Regenerative medicine is only in its infancy, but this week’s development marks a new milestone and indicates progress is accelerating. In Sweden a 36 year old Ethiopian student with advanced inoperable tracheal cancer had a lab-built artificial trachea coated with his own stem cells implanted.  Since he was on the verge of no longer being able to breathe, the surgery and the scientific development occurred in [...]

A group of researchers at the Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles were successfully able to create and install a tissue engineered intestine in laboratory mice. First they took cells from living mice intestines including cells from all the normal layers of the intestine including the muscle cells responsible for peristalsis or movement, and the lining or endothelial [...]