Laboratory-Grown Urethras Implanted in Patients, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Scientists Report

ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2011) — Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported March 7 on a new advance in tissue engineering. The team is the first in the world to use patients' own cells to build tailor-made urinary tubes and successfully replace damaged tissue.

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