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>> the next thing we're going to do is store your stem cells. >> remember those stem cells that i had stored? well, if i'm ever in need of an organ, they might just come in handy. >> a stem cell has the ability to become many other cell types. a heart cell or a liver cell. >> kidney cells, bladder cells, skin cells, heart cells, lung cells. you name it. >> so one cell becomes a universal donor. >> next step, engineering the body part. in one of dr. atala's latest breakthroughs in organ engineering is truly groundbreaking. printing. yes, printing body parts. >> the first printer we used was act...

Take advantage of those future breakthroughs that can keep me alive even longer, maybe even indefinitely. and it turns out the future may be closer than we think. at the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine a team led by dr. anthony atalla is doing something that was once pure fantasy -- growing human body parts right in the lab. >> one of the strategies we use is to take a very small piece of tissue, less than half the size of a postage stamp, you can grow those cells outside the body and we use those cells to three-dimensionally reconstruct the tissue of interest. >> the next thin...

Cells, bladder cells that go through the scaffold and what comes out the other side of the printer a bladder. when i operate on somebody with bladder cancer and we remove the entire bladder with he create a new bladder out of the small intestine. we take part of the small intestine and create a whole new bladder and put it in. if you have a real transplant a real bladder from outside it becomes like an auto part, you take the bladder out, give me the new bladder i'll put it back in. >> this is not like cars, though. >> it's not science fiction. it's already there and it's coming up. heart valv...