Grow-your-own organs could be here 5-10 years. Working in pigs

[rcjordan]

"new experiments showed the lungs were still functioning two months after they were implanted and the animals had 100 per cent oxygen saturation, meaning all their red blood cells were carrying oxygen through the body."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/08/01/grow-your-own-organs-could-within-five-years-scientists-prove/

[Marilee]

Thanks for sharing this article. I found it very interesting. I have always thought that there must be a way for a person to grow another kidney of their own (much as a lizard can regrow their tail), and this is a start in that direction.

[rcjordan]

Here's another article covering the same. It may have a few more tidbits of info.
https://www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-lungs-pigs-success-2018

Basically, I'm just watching the various places that are involved in research and trying to judge which ones are out ahead.  I have a gut feeling that either scaffold-printed organs or stem-cell injections in existing, poorly functional kidneys *might* happen within a 5-year window.  Printed body parts are already being used for less complex organs like the esophagus.