What it takes to make an organ - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences


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	By Alison McCook

What it takes to make an organ Two years ago, the first employees of Tengion walked into a 2,800 square meter warehouse in southeastern Pennsylvania that was full to the brim with office furniture, rising up to a 12-meter ceiling, and said: We'll take it. They cleared everything out and started to fill the empty space with rooms and equipment to automate something that had never been automated before: human bladders.