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Take advantage of those future breakthroughs that can keep me alive even longer, maybe even indefinitely. and it turns out the future may be closer than we think. at the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine a team led by dr. anthony atalla is doing something that was once pure fantasy growing human body parts right in the lab. one of the strategies we use is to take a very small piece of tissue, less than half the size of a postage stamp, you can grow those cells outside the body and we use those cells to three-dimensionally reconstruct the tissue of interest. the next thing we re going to do is store your stem cells. remember those stem cells that i had stored? well, if i m ever in need of an organ, they might just come in handy. a stem cell has the ability to become many other cell types. a heart cell or a liver cell. kidney cells, bladder cells, skin cells, heart cells, lung cells. you name it. so one cell becomes a universal donor. next step, engineering ....

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