Monday, April 03, 2006

A Valuable Reminder That Most Biotech is Not Controversial

This is a wonderful breakthrough in tissue engineering: Scientists took bladder and muscle cells from children with bladder disease. They then rebuilt them into a functioning bladder, which was attached to the children's existing bladders. The result is much improved bladder control without the bad side effects that can happen with current surgical techniques.

The technique might also be applied to people with other forms of bladder disease, such as cancer.

1 Comments:

At April 06, 2006 , Blogger Nancy Reyes said...

I think it's great...
But ethically it has a problem...you see, they used kids between age 5 and 19...essentially using kids as guinea pigs...
Since they could have used young adult paraplegics over age of consent, it makes one wonder why they used kids.

 

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