A researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital has successfully grown the world’s first biolimb, The Washington Post reports. It’s a rat’s forearm and hand, and it looks a little smaller than an adult human’s thumb. Researchers are hopeful this could be the first step toward growing fully functional limbs in labs.
“We’re focusing on the forearm and hand to use it as a model system and proof of principle,” Harald Ott, the researcher who grew the limb, told New Scientist. “But the techniques would apply equally to legs, arms, and other extremities.”
via The Verge
June 9, 2015
