The science and medicine provide another step forward. A group of Scottish researchers who brought the world’s first artificial organ created within an animal. It is a thymus and may mark the beginning of a new era alternative to organ transplants, tells the BBC.
A team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh published this Sunday in Nature Cell Biology study that can further revolutionize the science and regenerative medicine.
At issue is the creation of an artificial organ generated by poorly differentiated embryonic cells and that grew into an animal. It is a thymus and is fully functional, however, while promising, the result does not even initiate this human experience, reveals the BBC.
The agency has grown into a mouse and was based on the cells of a mouse embryo, before being placed on the body of the animal have been reprogrammed genetically to become a particular type of cells present in the thymus.
This setting can be an excellent good -new for babies born without this body and for the elderly, since the thymus loses size depending advancing age, increasing the vulnerability of the person to diseases and infections.
The thymus is a organ responsible for the production of T lymphocytes immune system and is located near the heart.
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