Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 12:56 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 Centre's Institute for Regenerative Medicine have used tissue engineering techniques to completely replace penile erectile tissue in animals...

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