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Lab-grown bladders 'a milestone' Laura Cinti divider 04 Apr 06, 10:15 divider Write Comment divider

US scientists have successfully implanted bladders grown in the laboratory from patients' own cells into people with bladder disease.

The researchers, from North Carolina's Wake Forest University, have carried out seven transplants, and in some the organ is working well years later.

             Bladder

 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4871540.stm
 
'More genes' needed to make life Laura Cinti divider 04 Apr 06, 10:18 divider Write Comment divider

Scientists trying to make artificial life forms in the lab may have more work ahead of them than they thought.

The simplest life forms could require twice as many genes to survive than was previously believed, a research team claims in the journal Nature.

             E. coli bacteria, CDC

 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4857868.stm