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Scientists Overseas Create Working Organ From Scratch For First Time Ever
In what's being hailed as a scientific first, researchers in Scotland have created a fully functional organ from scratch inside the body of a living animal. The feat - the creation of a working thymus gland from "reprogrammed" embryonic cells - is seen as an important step toward the development of laboratory-grown organs and a potential fix for the chronic shortage of donor organs.
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