tissue-engineering

The Pipe That Grew Itself

The dispatch arrived in my queue at 0340 on a Tuesday, filed between a routine pharmaceutical inventory report and a request from Ridgeline's satellite clinic for additional SHERLOCK strips. I read it in my office, still in the coat I'd worn home and not yet taken off, because it had been that kind of day. Nature Biotechnology. Dr. Natalie Durkin, Professor Paolo De Coppi, Dr. Marco Pellegrini. UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. A lab-grown oesophagus. I read it three times. I