Monday, August 18, 2008

Zombie Watch: Biomed professor engineers "tailor-made body parts".


Ever have sentient intestines chase you down a street, leaping up and choking you to death before devouring your soul? Soon you will! From the NY Post:

Fingertips, noses and kidneys may someday be grown to your body's specifications, thanks to a recent Columbia University breakthrough.

Biomedical-engineering Professor Sam Sia and doctoral student Brian Gillette have figured out how to grow cells on a computer-designed latticework of collagen fibers.

"[This discovery] might lead to putting together tissues or whole organs," said Gillette.

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