Stem Cell Colon

I'm sure this was discussed when the article came out, that was a few months before my time here.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/847030

Pretty much they hope to be able to "grow" artificial organ tissue that could one day help out people like us. I guess even if they could develop a new colon for someone with UC, the risk of rectal inflammation is still there.

Only reason I bring it up is because they claim they started research on larger animals in 2015 for 3 years so with it being 2018, i was wondering if we are getting some type of news this year?

Just curious if anyone had read about this or something like it.

You have to cure the disease first before it's even worth replacing the damaged colon because it will just reinfect the new colon. Having Colon rectal surgery is not an over night recover, it takes months to fully recover.

It'd be the same as with resections with UC (and why they always do a total colectomy and not a partial). You can cut the bad part out and UC only spreads to the remaining "healthy" tissue afterwards. Whatever the cause of UC (autoimmune, MAP, or something else), it will come back even after the bad tissue is cut out (when only part of the large intestine is removed). As the problem isn't the tissue that's inflamed, rather it's another mechanism from/present elsewhere in our bodies acting on our intestine. Whatever it is, it likes large intestinal tissue, remove it all and you have the closest thing to a cure with a j-pouch or end-ileo w/appliance.

As Keith said, if they discover a cure for UC within our lifetimes, then it would be technically possible to grow a new large intestine from the patient's stem cells and then implant it back in and not have any issues going forward. I believe intestinal tissue is actually pretty simple, and would be easier then say growing a heart or kidney.

Actually, kidneys are simple and easy to grow, that was one of the first organs they they started to grow. The two organs that they grew first we Kidneys (huge demand) and bladders.

I'm really interested in new livers, with all the meds that I've put in my body over the years.

No, not if the organ is grown using your cells.

But my organs don't seem to be a perfect match already 🤔

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