The Human Body Shop Dozens of groups in industry and academia are… working on
techniques for fashioning new organs out of cells
from embryos, cadavers or patients themselves,
combined with special biomaterials. Most current
work in the commercial realm focuses on tissues, valves and other components of organs. Already, there are a handful of tissue-engineered products
on the market—skin, bone, and cartilage implants and patches—the first successes in a young
field. MIT Technology Review