Posted on 12/16/2013 1:18:13 PM PST by topher
Scientists in Australia have grown the world's first kidney from stem cells – a tiny organ which could eventually help to reduce the wait for transplants.
The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature Cell Biology, followed years of research and involved the transformation of human skin cells into an organoid – a functioning "mini-kidney" with a width of only a few millimetres.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This process grows a mini kidney, not a full kidney, at this point.
they’ve been growing parts for quite a while.....none from stem cells
Yeah, I’d say they were some ways away for an actual kidney.
This is adult stem cells. In this case, they used skin stem cells.
FYI
any idea how long it would take to get a real, functioning kidney?
This next ten to twenty years is going to be an amazing time in medicine and biology. Got my popcorn ready...
Can’t wait. So many people are going to be helped.
Some maladies are going to be things of the past in short order.
Oh oh, I see a gold member in the future!
Perhaps we’re within measurable distance of that bit in Star Trek IV wherein McCoy gives an old woman a pill and she grows a new kidney. “The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney! The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!”
I’ve been noticing all of the posts about new scientific and medical discoveries - rarely are these happening in America or by Americans. I guess our scientists are too busy trying to fix Healthcare.gov or trying to find the gay gene or prove climate change is man made......
Why create and accumulate wealth where private property is is not protected?
A kidney is one of the most structurally complicated organs in the body. I have to assume that they just managed to get a glob of cells that had some powers of a real kidney, such as sodium or glucose retention.
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