Lab Grown Human Tissue is a Reality

Judy just read to me an article from the Wall Street Journal about the idea of growing new arteries in a lab. It is an astounding advancement in medicine. The company that is now awaiting final FDA approval is called Humacyte, and they’ve already implanted over five hundred arteries in people. I was happy to learn that soldiers who’ve been injured have had limbs saved by having the lab-grown arteries implanted.

Getting to the point of this post, I am aware that research takes enormous amounts of time and money. Reading that scientists are working on things like this makes me hopeful that someday we may find a way to help us nonspeakers. To be able to grow human tissue in a lab is futuristic. Perhaps there are ways to regrow the broken pathways which stops us from speaking with our mouths.