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Human Muscles Engineered from Stem Cells

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    North Carolina hospital successfully creates muscles, nerves

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It doesn't look that complex but in this small dish is a mold and around it.

Human nerve and muscle cells growing into a -- -- That's.

-- lifetime.

Won't do muscle.

Being able to finally.

Quote culture because make a function -- two good.

We use -- they.

Doctor -- guitar is heading up this most recent -- -- at Wake Forest Baptist medical center's center for regenerative medicine.

And He says his team has successfully developed contestants -- with human nerves that function properly.

And we have them.

That you.

Successfully and I and I won't mall.

Way -- life -- -- who love us.

Been banned all the -- -- -- -- -- muscle.

While this latest research could change treatments for people with -- -- urinary problems it's just the latest of 36 organs being engineered grown and tested here.

They think this can only happen up in Boston or California but it's happening right here in the -- it.

From -- simple matters bones skin heart valves and livers.

The center has one goal to use a patient's own cells and successfully improve the quality of life.

By growing new organs to replace damaged or failing ones.

You right now there's over a 100000 people on the transplant list in this country.

The sad fact is most of them are not gonna get the organ that they need this year.

Because of its success the -- has contract with the US army working to grow skin muscle -- facial tissue.

And with every new drop of human cells they test researchers appear to be finding more and more ways to grow organs essential for human life.

It's very exciting work.

That's going wrong.

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