Scientists have made rat lungs in the laboratory , a small but tantalizing step in the quest to create body parts for transplantation or to treat disease .
科学家在实验室中成功再造了鼠肺,在制造人体器官用于移植和疾病治疗的道路上迈出了重要的一小步。
Table 22.1 animal models of transplantation or autoimmunity where anti thymocyte / lymphocyte reagents are beneficial . A
表22.1移植或自身免疫动物模型抗-胸腺细胞/淋巴细胞制剂的效果a
If successful , such an approach would promote the patient 's own insulin production without need for its supplementation by insulin injections or beta cell transplantation from the cadaver organ donors .
Donoghue was responsible for the first successful transplantation of a chip into the motor cortex of a tetraplegic man , enabling him to move a computer cursor and manipulate a robotic arm with his mind .
One of the key problems associated with organ transplantation is the risk that the body will " recognise " the new organ as a foreign invader and attack it .
器官移植的最关键的问题之一就是身体能“识别”新器官,并把其做为外来入侵者进行攻击。
Stem cell biologist g. ian gallicano of georgetown university in washington , d.c. , and colleagues believe they have found a method that would give diabetics the advantages of islet cell transplantation without the need for immunosuppressant drugs .
Shaw says regenerative medicine cell and tissue transplantation , gene therapy in pets holds enormous promise , both in the benefits it can offer patients and in the development of therapies that may also work with humans .
The most troubling and longstanding problem raised by organ transplantation has involved altering the very definition of death , since to transplant a vital organ , the donor 's organs must still be alive .
To find out whether mitochondrial transplantation could work in people ( it has already been demonstrated in other species of mammal ) dr mitalipov collected eggs from the ovaries of women with mutated mitochondria and others from donors with healthy mitochondria .
The recovery and transplantation of organs tends to be highly controlled because organs , unlike tissue , have to be a perfect physical match , in good shape and handled with extreme care to have any hope of functioning in the recipient 's body .