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• WFU team logs success growing organs from patients' cells

  - 2006-05-01

  WINSTON-SALEM -- Bio-engineered bladders grown from young patients' own cells have improved recipients' health and quality of life, according to a report by a renowned Wake Forest University specialist in an early-April issue of The Lancet. Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest...

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• Grow your own

  - 2005-07-01

  Tony Atala is on the hot seat, though he's fielding easy questions. He struggles to recall he's 46, was born in South America and grew up mostly in Boca Raton, Fla. Asked when he got his bachelor's from the University of Miami, he tilts his eyes toward a spot near...

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• Partnerships will spur biotech growth in North Carolina's Triad, professor says.

  - 2004-11-09

  By M. Paul Jackson, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--The growth of biotechnology in the Triad region won't come primarily through advanced sciences or new medical devices. It will come through better partnerships. That was the...

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