Exclusive: How far are we from lab-grown organs? This Y Combinator startup is printing a road map

Exclusive: How far are we from lab-grown organs? This Y Combinator startup is printing a road map

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Fierce Biotech
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Thirty years ago, when the field of tissue engineering beginning to coalesce, experts predicted we were just a couple decades away from creating brand-new organs for patients. After all, replacement parts made of plastic or metal had become a reality—just ask the millions of people living with knee or hip replacements.

So, why aren’t we, in 2020, growing replacement lungs, livers and kidneys to fill the gap that donor organs can’t address?