Mustaf Yabarow Ms.

Tarnoski English 10B Bio Engineering What if you could regrow an arm,leg and e en a fully functional heart! Would you do it! "rtificial human body #arts might seem like something off of a science fiction mo ie but scientists are now creating things com#le$ human #arts that can be used by #atients around the world. The reason this research is being conducted because of the many #atients on the waiting list. %undreds each day die &ust waiting for an organ to be donated. The only answer to this #roblem is lab grown organs. 'uckily we are well on our way to sto##ing the deaths. (rowing organs can be a difficult task but there is a wide ariety of #ossibilities. Many im#ortant human body #arts and organs ha e been made. Earlier this year scientists re#orted they had

#roduced beating heart tissue from stem cells )*+ichard,-. .reating main organs such as the heart is an essential ste# because we could be able to create arteries. which connect to the heart to su##ly the rest of the body. /ome other organs that we are able to create would include the li er,bladder,kidney and e en small human brains. The growing amount of com#le$ organs will lead to an age where we can create anything which will benefit all who are waiting in hos#itals for a trans#lant. The 0ariety that can be created is endless. There are also different ways and tools to create and grow these body #arts. There are also different1 ways these organs can be assembled. 234 #rinting of bio3engineered has already been successfully done at the Wake 5orest institution )/te#hanie-. 234 #rinting makes it fast and easy to create things such as scaffolds. 5or #atients this is good because the desire to get trans#lant may not e en be needed if you could get a machine to &ust start #rinting a custom scaffold for you. %e1ll directly

in&ect their failing organ with stem cells in an effort to re#air of regenerate it )"6starnet-. +e#airing the could e en be faster. Your own stem cells go into the body #art in need of re#air and the stem cells will start to re#lace the dying cells. 7ee#ing the #atient ali e without ha ing to do a full trans#lant. 8t does not take a rocket scientists to in&ect something. You sim#ly #ush a needle. The rest is done by the stem cells which create new tissue for whate er was lost. What1s in it for they #atients you sat! Well for one the waiting list for organ trans#lants can be eliminated by bio3engineering. %e #redicts that if only 100,000 s#ecimans were collected from the 9 million li e births each year in the :./., it would be enough to su##ly ;;< of "mericans with a##ro#riately matched tissues )"lice-. "lmost all #atients would sur i e if we went this route. The world #eo#le li e in today would be far different if each #erson was su##lied with matched tissue. "bout 1= #eo#le die each day waiting for trans#lants that can1t take

#lace because of the shortage of donated organs )womenshealth- The numbers are e en higher if you count the #eo#le who are waiting for different ty#es of trans#lants. .reating >