With a key to helping with the shortage of organ donors, Scottish researchers made a scientific breakthrough after having grown human kidneys in a lab. Edinburgh University scientists are in hope to grow human kidneys. Throughout the UK there are over 7,000 waiting for a transplant and some 500 Scots that are waiting for one as well.
By manipulating stem cells in order to form the kidney, the scientists created the organ and they were then grown in the lab by using a combination of cells from amniotic fluid – the fluid around the baby in the womb – and animal foetal cells. The kidneys created measured only a centimetre in length, the same as a kidney in a fetus and they have hopes that the organs will grow to maturity inside the patients after being transplanted.
Later this month in Edinburgh at the Science Festival, the scientists will outline the entire discovery. The end product is to have a fully functioning human organ after only starting out with human stem cells said one professor of experimental anatomy at the university. The work is to convert cells that are floating about freely in liquid into a precisely arranged kidney.
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