Quote Originally Posted by ReptileFan
Hello,

I have recently joined the site and am very excited about it. Anyway to the point.... Mendel, earlier in this post you claimed that human organs such as a kidney have not yet been able to be cloned in most cases you are correct. However a recent scientific discussed how a man, his name escapes me, recently GREW a bladder. what he did is selected several cells from deep inside a regeular human bladder and then he grew them around the mold of a bladder, he eneded up with a fully functioning bladder and had i put into severa people who had malfunctioning bladders alll had increased bladder funcion toa degree

Ty
Your right...I've heard about this.....If I get time I might try to dig up something on this.....I mentioned this before when I mentioned tissue engineering. I was a part of PTEI.

A bladder isnt a kidney though (kidneys are much more complex) However, The developments in bladder regeneration are exciting. There are also a lot of exciting things going on with cardiomyocytes--using them to heal hearts.

Even with the development of organs in vitro.....organs are not organ systems.......we'd still need animal research. It will be quite awhile before we can do away with animal research.