In a 15-hour procedure, doctors used donated tissue to give Wiens a donor forehead, nasal structure, nose, lips and facial skin.
Exactly the same technique is being used to "tissue type" the embryos for a potential match.
New rules on organ donation will not assume people have consented to have their tissue used for procedures like face transplants, the health minister has said.
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These iPS cells, like stem cells derived from embryos, can be turned into many different kinds of cells, and researchers believe they eventually could be used to regenerate tissue for organs and repair damage.
Many believe that if a way can be found to grow and harvest these cells, they can be used as replacement tissue to combat a variety of human diseases and ailments, from diabetes to organ failure.
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One, for incontinence, was a ball-like device used to prop up tissue around the urethra.
Professor Bruce Drinkwater from Bristol even suggested it could one day be used to assemble human tissue (custom assembled livers, anyone?).
However, he said that embryonic stem cells remained the most obvious source of cells for such transplants, as foetal tissue - used in some experiments - was scarce, and so-called "adult stem cells" had never been converted into the right type of brain cells, despite 15 years of research.
He and his team already have grown early-stage valves and patches that could be used some day to repair tissue damaged by heart attack.
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In the more immediate future it could be used to generate biopsy-like tissue samples for drug testing.
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For example, its Arthroscopy products are used in the repair of soft tissue joint injuries, particularly the knee and shoulder.
Another was an attachment for a tissue box to hold used tissues, a convenience that anyone with a bad cold can appreciate.
Inflammation is often used by the body to repair tissue (which is why when you sprain a muscle, the area becomes inflamed).
Fat or muscle was used to fill in the area after tissue was removed.
Ketamine is also used to treat acute pain after significant tissue trauma, either as the result of surgery or an accident.
Ultrasound had been used to remove cataracts or to surgically remove tissue.
Moreover, their new technique could be used to inject other ultrasmall electronic sensors into brain tissue.
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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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For now, treatment of strokes is pretty much limited to Genentech's clot-busting drug, Activase, a tissue plasminogen activator, which is primarily used to treat heart attacks.
Radioactive iodine treatment is often used after thyroidectomy to destroy any remaining healthy thyroid tissue, as well as microscopic areas of thyroid cancer that weren't removed during surgery.
After chemotherapy or radiotherapy is used to treat cancer, there is damage to the tissue.
They had used a small piece of each patient's own tissue from the bladder, then grew the cells in a lab onto a mesh scaffold shaped like a urethra.
It is made of collapsed cow tissue in a steel frame, much like the stents used for opening arteries.
Sapien made of coiled steel, like the stents used to prop open clogged heart arteries, and flaps of cow tissue.
Biotech firm Hiberna, hatched last year with undisclosed funding from Boulder Ventures, has used DNA chips to spot 15 genes that appear crucial for protecting tissue during hibernation.
Used topically, the honey can help prevent the attachment of bacteria to tissue, thereby allowing the healing process to accelerate and the infection to clear.
But if water is used in the neti pot, or the solution isn't the right concentration, the tissue in the nose can get swollen, DelGaudio said.
This could then be used by pathology labs and even by surgeons who wanted to make sure they had removed all the cancerous tissue during an operation.
This chemical cascade, called the Wnt pathway, is turned on when organisms are injured, and it could in theory be used to make stem cells that are already present in the heart, brain and other organs regenerate damaged tissue.
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