But what if a doctor could grow replacement organs and body parts in the lab — from your own cells?
As CBS 2’s Dr. Max Gomez found out, it’s already being done.
Luke Masalla looks like a pretty normal 20-year-old, but he’s part of a very unusual club.
Luke’s bladder was grown in a lab.
“I was in kidney failure and my bladder was sending fluid back up into my kidneys and damaging them,” Masalla said.
Luke’s own bladder didn’t work properly because he was born with spina bifida and his doctors were out of options.
That’s when Luke’s parents took him to see Dr. Anthony Atala who proposed a science fiction-like solution — grow a new bladder.
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