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Scientists Grow Working Vocal Cord Tissue In the Lab

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: November 18th, 2015, 9:00pm UTC

sciencehabit writes that tissue engineers have for the first time grown vocal cords from human cells. Science reports: "For the first time, scientists have created vocal cord tissue starting with cells from human vocal cords. When tested in the lab, the bioengineered tissue vibratedmdash;and even soundedmdash;similar to the natural thing. The development could one day help those with severely damaged vocal cords regain their lost voices. 'Itrsquo;s an exciting finding because those patients are the ones we have very few treatment options for,' says Jennifer Long, a voice doctor and scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, head and neck surgery department, who wasnrsquo;t involved in the study."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Scientists+Grow+Working+Vocal+Cord+Tissue+In+the+Lab%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1kFJtAj"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F11%2F18%2F235209%2Fscientists-grow-working-vocal-cord-tissue-in-the-lab%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/11/18/235209/scientists-grow-working-vocal-cord-tissue-in-the-lab?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/11/18/235209/scientists-grow-working-vocal-cord-tissue-in-the-lab?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/vVkxs0SYG2c" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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