Here's The First Lab-Grown Limb
- 9 years ago
A research team at Massachusetts General Hospital has successfully grown a rat forearm in the lab that ultimately shows promise for human limb growth and transplantation in the future.
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital has successfully grown a rat forearm in the lab.
They are hoping that the procedure could one day result in the regeneration of human limbs which could then be transplanted to amputees.
According to one of the researchers, the main challenge overall is that each of the components of the limb, including the muscles, bone, blood vessels, and nerves need to grow separately yet work together within a supporting matrix.
They were able to overcome this
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital has successfully grown a rat forearm in the lab.
They are hoping that the procedure could one day result in the regeneration of human limbs which could then be transplanted to amputees.
According to one of the researchers, the main challenge overall is that each of the components of the limb, including the muscles, bone, blood vessels, and nerves need to grow separately yet work together within a supporting matrix.
They were able to overcome this