Scientists grow viable vaginas from girls' own cells

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Scientists grow viable vaginas from girls' own cells

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-grow-viable-vaginas-girls-own-cells-223432537.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4fwCRL5x6KAx8YdnxIJrMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-10T223704Z_2_CBREA391QQ300_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-ORGANS-VAGINAS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout photo of Dr Yuanyuan Zhang demonstrating the process to engineer a vaginal organ" align="left" title="Handout photo of Dr Yuanyuan Zhang demonstrating the process to engineer a vaginal organ" border="0" /></a>By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four young women born with abnormal or missing vaginas were implanted with lab-grown versions made from their own cells, the latest success in creating replacement organs that have so far included tracheas, bladders and urethras. Follow-up tests show the new vaginas are indistinguishable from the women's own tissue and have grown in size as the young women, who got the implants as teens, matured. It is not yet clear whether these women can bear children, but because they are menstruating, it suggests their ovaries are working, so it may be possible, said Dr Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina. The feat, which Atala and colleagues in Mexico describe in the journal the Lancet, is the latest demonstration from the growing field of regenerative medicine, a discipline in which doctors take advantage of the body's power to regrow and replace cells.</p><br clear="all"/>

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