Doctor Anthony Atala is Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

Dr. Anthony Atala at Wake Forest University generated bladders and a urethra using scaffolds and patients' stem cells.

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Wednesday's report is "a nice advancement, " said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, who wasn't involved in the new research.

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"We were able to create patients' own tissue that actually belongs there, " said Dr. Anthony Atala, lead author of the study and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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