Human Body Parts Can Made Already

Creating artificial organ sound like a horror story or only found in science fiction novels. But it turns out it was real and could be realized. A professor of health in the UK has developed a new type of plastic material which allows the manufacture of artificial organs.

Project you're working professors Alex Seifalian is likely to be the beginning of the new health industry. This technique truly yet approved in the United States, but Seifalian laboratory in London already had orders for the manufacture of human body parts from other countries around the world.

Seifalian explained that the technique of making replacement organs (parts) is assisted by a special plastic material that can adjust to the surface of the transplant.

In June 2011, an artificial throat transplant operation was successfully completed in the hospital Stockholm, Sweden. Organ recipients named Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene from Eritrea who had previously been diagnosed with throat cancer. Now he has recovered.
This technique is done by creating an artificial body parts that hurt and then gave him a new kind of polymer coating developed in the laboratory.

Seifalain explained that the material is a special type of plastic has microscopic pores, in which stem cells taken from patients can attach to and grow.

Chemicals in the growth medium will determine the stem cells can grow into the required tissue types.

"So basically, patients were given order, a kind of foundation or the form in which the patient's own cells regrow body parts that hurt. The body's cells form by itself and become part of the patient's body," said Seifalian as reported by CBSNews, Sunday (30 / 10 / 2011).

Because the cells derived from patient's own body, this new organ will not be rejected by the immune system as well as common problems encountered in transplantation.

"Throat is only the beginning. Artificial heart transplants are possible, but the more complex organs such as lungs and brain is more complicated to make," explains Seifalian.

Seifalian laboratory has been to grow blood vessels for use in cardiac bypass surgery. But Seifalian reluctant if his work is equated with fictional characters in Mary Shelley's book, 'Frankenstein'.

"We do not make the man. We only make spare parts, parts for humans.'s Simple," he concluded.