Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre's Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina have managed to grow vaginas in the lab to help women born without them. In this photo, cells from the patient's body are cultured on a matrix and wrapped around a tube to mimic the vaginal opening. After the culturing process is done, the resulting 'tube' of living cells is implanted into the patient's body.
Four young women born with missing or abnormal vaginas were implanted with lab-grown versions made from their own cells, the latest success in creating replacement organs that have so far included tracheas, bladders and urethras.
Follow-up tests show the new vaginas are indistinguishable from the women’s own tissue and have grown in size as the young women, who got the implants as teens, matured.
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