September 17, 2012 AUTHOR: zachary CATEGORIES: Real World, Technology Tags:

Rack Grown Tissue

The world of The Gatecrashers takes place 30 years into the future.  Technology like the organ growth profiled in this New York Times Article on organ transplant, has trickled down to the street, where regular citizens use this sort of technology not only for homegrown medical procedures, but also for back alley cosmetic reconstruction.

In Mr. Beyene’s case, an exact copy of his windpipe was made from a porous, fibrous plastic, which was then seeded with stem cells harvested from his bone marrow. After just a day and a half in a bioreactor — a kind of incubator in which the windpipe was spun, rotisserie-style, in a nutrient solution — the implant was stitched into Mr. Beyene, replacing his cancerous windpipe.

From the New York Times Article:
“A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells”
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