This approach has the advantage that the tissue has a functioning system of blood vessels to deliver nutrients, so it should be possible to grow tissue cultures more than a millimetre thick the current limit.
Could patients have themselves cloned in order to harvest cells from a genetically-identical embryo, gaining a donor and avoiding the major problem of transplant surgery: rejection of foreign tissue by the immune system?
"This is a stem cell that is generated by the body's own tissue so the immune system does not recognise it and they can get any place they want without being attacked, " said Prof Rambukkana.
As a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, he studied multiple sclerosis, a genetically conditioned disease in which the immune system mistakes nerve tissue for a foreign invader and systematically destroys it.
But the condition also resembles an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
That damaged the surrounding tissue enough to activate the coagulation system.
It's also the first on this side of the Pacific to utilize Kyocera's Smart Sonic Receiver tissue-conduction tech, a system that foregoes the traditional earpiece and transmits audio to your ear via vibration.
In addition, advances in suppressing the immune system's response to foreign tissue would give the procedure a better chance of success.
Its LaserSmile system uses a laser to perform soft tissue and cosmetic procedures, including teeth whitening.
An autism research group has recently set up a system to encourage the donation of brain tissue from people with autism.
Recent discoveries revealed that tumors are adept at cloaking themselves by hijacking the body's own mechanism for preventing the system's T-cells, the infection- and disease-fighting cells of the immune system, from running amok against healthy tissue.
The system is designed to increase the number of organ and tissue donors, if legislation is approved.
Furthermore, scientists think they understand the steps they need to take to genetically modify pig tissue so that it will not be rejected by the human immune system.
One on microbes relies on virtual reality to let kids energize the body's immune system by whacking computer-generated images of viruses attacking healthy tissue.
Dead tissue produced by the anti-tumor effects of the Roche drug, could help stimulate the immune system and enhance the impact of the Bristol drug.
For reasons that are not yet clear, when the T-cell-presenting system is reactivated by the gradual disappearance of the antibodies, it no longer seems to perceive the transplanted tissue as foreign.
It is not yet known whether it is possible to generate extensive neuroplasticity in a system that has been injured for a long time and now contains many more complications such as abundant scar tissue, large holes in the spinal cord and where many spinal nerve cells and long range nerve fibres have died or degenerated.
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