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Anthony Atala sobre cultivar novos órgãos

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O laboratório estado da arte de Anthony Atala cultiva órgãos humanos -- de músculos e vasos sanguíneos a bexigas e ainda mais. No TEDMED, ele mostra cenas de seus bio-engenheiros trabalhando com algumas dessas engenhocas de ficção científica, incluindo um bioreator semelhante a um forno (preaqueça a 37 ºC) e uma máquina que "imprime" tecidos humanos.

Anthony Atala asks, "Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?" His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that -- engineering over 30 tissues and whole organs. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese (Brazil) by Durval Castro
Reviewed by Stéfano Johann
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