Growing Organs
Amy discusses the progress of growing organs and the use of organoids, teeny tiny blobs of tissue that can connect to form a body on a chip. While there are still challenges to overcome, the growth and surgery of an artificial heart inside a pig was a successful milestone. The ultimate goal is to engineer a fix to the problem of organ transplant, without having to grow millions of pigs for their organs.In this clip
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