7 Quotes by Anthony Atala

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.

This is a small, limited experience, but it has enough follow-up to show us that tissue engineering is a viable tool that will allow us to tackle problems of similar magnitude.

It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're functioning.