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To: Rick Strange who wrote (1884)8/24/1999 9:43:00 PM
From: Marshall Teitelbaum  Respond to of 2205
 
Hey Rick and all....a few old names returning....hello everyone.

Interesting release by ORTC today:

biz.yahoo.com

32 people for the study only.

Also, of interest, is the Bordeaux European tissue engineering meeting this week. ORG has all of a sudden taken off the last two days, leading me to believe that something considered good news might be coming out. However, yesterday the whole skin sector had a good day(ie ATIS, ORG, ORTC, etc.).

Regarding the question of rejection, I think we had gone over this area in a lot of detail at least a year or so ago, so it might be worth going back to read. However, there was no obvious source of immune reaction with the foreskin cells used as the basis of the engineered skin......antigenicity being a factor.

Regards,

Marshall



To: Rick Strange who wrote (1884)8/24/1999 9:59:00 PM
From: Bruce Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 2205
 
Rick,

Going back a few posts, you discussed human tissue engineered organs being likely a more suitable option than xenotransplantation. I understand that ATIS can already grow kidney, liver, and pancreas tissue. Do you know what kind of cells they are starting with. I can't imagine they're from the foreskin also. Maybe from infant cadaver organs?

Bruce Long