These results suggest the technique could have future research possibilities in developing lab-grown organs.
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Lab-grown tissue has the potential to transform medicine, though it is still a long way from routine clinical use.
Forgacs says lab-grown meat is becoming increasingly necessary as the world struggles to cope with an unsustainable meat industry.
But a new breakthrough from Harvard researchers has produced the first "cyborg" tissue, created by embedding functional, biocompatible nanowires into lab-grown flesh.
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What was once a hobbyist's dream gadget is now being used to produce faux arteries for lab-grown tissue and Magic Arms.
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However, Forgacs is not the only scientist working on lab-grown meat.
The NIH has contended that despite the federal ban, it is legal for federally funded researchers to use those lab-grown stem cells because the scientists never touched the original embryos.
But forget new uses for lab-grown human skin.
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In fact, rather than attempt to race to produce an engineered meat product, Forgacs said his first lab-grown product is going to be leather, which he says "is a similar product to some extents but not as controversial and doesn't require the same legislation that meat does".
Scientists are unsure if stem cells are altered for the worse when grown in the lab.
Crucially the bacteria can be grown in the lab without needing a fresh sample for each transplant.
Such crystals grown in the lab by traditional methods are about 100 times smaller than the crystals nature makes.
The strain affecting the patient was isolated and grown in the lab, and biochemical analysis found that the bacteria prevented the immune system responding as normal by "shooting the messenger".
He was approached in 2009 by a U.S. scientist, Doris Taylor, who had already grown a beating rat heart in the lab while at the University of Minnesota.
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The kelp seeds, grown on a string back at the university lab, are wrapped around the 150-foot lines.
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