Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 17:35
in Biology & Nature
In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine have used tissue engineering techniques to completely replace penile erectile tissue in animals.
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