Just like the invention of test tube baby, the invention of the laboratory grown kidney can be an outstanding breakthrough in biological science. The experiment proved to be a success with rats. This cleared the path for the making of human kidneys. This challenging job of lab grown kidney can potentially help those who are waiting for a matching kidney from a donor. The testing has already been done on a few of the patients which proved to be a success. The leader of the team Harald Ott said, “If this technology can be scaled to human-size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand”. He also claimed that with a sample of patient cells a kidney can be grafted successfully, thereby decreasing the shortage of donor organs.
The organs are developed or re-grown in the lab with the help of collagen which has no trouble of acceptance in the human body. The flesh is grown by framing a coat of new cells in the internal surface. The team hopes to work on developing the other internal organs using this technique. It has already been tested successfully on pigs.
