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From the Ted Talk by Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

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Another technology that we have used in patients actually involves bladders. We actually take a very small piece of the blaeddr from the ptaeint — less than half the size of a postage stamp. We then grow the cells outside the body, take the socflafd, coat the scaffold with the cells — the patient's own cells, two different cell types. We then put it in this oven-like device. It has the same conditions as the human body — 37 degrees centigrade, 95 percent oxygen. A few weeks later, you have your engineered organ that we're able to implant back into the patient. For these sfpiceic pinetats, we actually just suture these mlieatras. We use three-dimensional imagining analysis, but we actually created these biomaterials by hand.

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Another technology that we have used in patients actually involves bladders. We actually take a very small piece of the _______ from the _______ — less than half the size of a postage stamp. We then grow the cells outside the body, take the ________, coat the scaffold with the cells — the patient's own cells, two different cell types. We then put it in this oven-like device. It has the same conditions as the human body — 37 degrees centigrade, 95 percent oxygen. A few weeks later, you have your engineered organ that we're able to implant back into the patient. For these ________ ________, we actually just suture these _________. We use three-dimensional imagining analysis, but we actually created these biomaterials by hand.

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  1. scaffold
  2. specific
  3. patient
  4. materials
  5. bladder
  6. patients

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Another technology that we have used in patients actually involves bladders. We actually take a very small piece of the bladder from the patient — less than half the size of a postage stamp. We then grow the cells outside the body, take the scaffold, coat the scaffold with the cells — the patient's own cells, two different cell types. We then put it in this oven-like device. It has the same conditions as the human body — 37 degrees centigrade, 95 percent oxygen. A few weeks later, you have your engineered organ that we're able to implant back into the patient. For these specific patients, we actually just suture these materials. We use three-dimensional imagining analysis, but we actually created these biomaterials by hand.

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