User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2011 March 05 03:49:25 UTC

Tissue Engineering of Kidneys
I've got to rush off to catch a bus soon but hopefully i'll have more time to fix up this blog post and embed the video later but there was a TED talk by Anthony Atala that shows him printing the mold for Kidney on stage. Mainstream, web and social media and widely incorrectly said that he printed an actual kidney on stage. According to the Wakefield Institute of Regenerative medicine this is at least 5 years away but this is still very encouraging! Look after your Kidney!

Here is the link to the TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue.html

Here is the link to a release from Wakefield:

http://www.wfubmc.edu/Research/WFIRM/Media-Reports-on-Kidney-Printing-Inaccurate.htm&h=7416e

and here is a link to inaccurate coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-surgeon-kidney-ted-stage.html