How Does Your Organ Grow?

This is a fascinating development. Maybe this ultimately could be the solution to the kidney problem that I posted about below.

From MSNBC.com...

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

The technique might even be adapted to other organs like the bowel, bladder, or reproductive tract, Birchall said. 

“Patients engineering their own tissues is the key way forward,” said Dr. Patrick Warnke, a surgeon at the University of Kiel in Germany. Warnke is also growing patients’ tissues from stem cells for transplants.

Warnke predicted that doctors might one day be able to produce organs in the laboratory from patients’ own stem cells. “That is still years away, but we need pioneering approaches like this to solve the problem,” he said.

 Simply amazing.

It's advancements like these that could significantly extend life expectancy, even for people in their 30s, 40s & 50s now.

Update: Here is a video story about the transplant...