In loo of the tragic events that happened in Boston today, I decided to write about a more encouraging and uplifting Boston Globe story.
As the need for transplantable organs rises, scientists have begun experimenting with a new way of saving those in search of transplants.
Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine have successfully "grown" or generated a working kidney by use of a deceased rat's organs.
Now these kidneys, for all intents and purposes, are simply rebuffed rat kidneys. However the process, which involves using a special soap to remove the kidney of it's dead cells and inserting healthy cells from a donor rat, successfully produced a product to be transplanted into a rat.
Still in a rudimentary stage, the results show the reduced function of the recipient rats when using the new kidney. Yet, this promising step forward in the field of organ transplants could one day impact the lives of sick and dying people.
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