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The title is totally misleading. - The 'implants' are not organs. - The cells being implanted are from the recipient, so they naturally won't be rejected. If

• 24gttghh 8y ago
  >- The cells being implanted are from the recipient, so they naturally won't be rejected. Well, they appear to have engineered a patient's own cells into stem cells which were then re-implanted into a patient(s). >“We were able to create a personalized hydrogel from the materials of the biopsy, to differentiate fatty tissue cells into different cell types and to engineer cardiac, spinal cord, cortical and other tissue implants to treat different diseases,” said lead researcher Prof. Tal Dvir >The researchers extracted a small biopsy of fatty tissue from patients, then separated its cellular and a-cellular materials. While the cells were reprogrammed to become induced pluripotent stem cells — able to make cells from all three basic body layers, so they can potentially produce any cell or tissue the body needs to repair itself — the extracellular material was processed to become a personalized hydrogel.