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I don't follow. We're talking about body appendages from dead donors that have been washed of any cellular material so they can be retrofitted with cells from t
by sakopov 11y ago
I don't follow. We're talking about body appendages from dead donors that have been washed of any cellular material so they can be retrofitted with cells from the recipient? I guess I'm not seeing what exactly is "lab-grown" here.
- 51Cards 11y agoI'm not a medical expert but I would assume the theory is this. Take a donor part, wash it of the cells, re-populate with cells from the recipient... transplant... no rejection.
- fsloth 11y agoThe limb? Animal donor cells do not spontaneously start to reconstruct the tissue when removed from host. Otherwise we would be sprouting all over the place. Anyway, consider the washed out matrix just as a scaffolding for the proof of concept. We can probably eventually print cartilage so then the scaffolding can be done from first principles.