BBCNEWS Click - Short Edition July 7, 2024
nearly 7,000 people in the uk right now need organ transplants. sometimes the wait for these lifelines can be long and agonising, and not everyone survives them. we clearly need more donors. but 3d printing might be able to offer a solution. yeah, scientists are developing a method to create organs from living tissue, which can then be translated into patients who need them. shiona mccallum has been to gothenburg in sweden to find out more. it's been more than 70 years since the first successful organ transplant — a kidney. the chances of further operations of this kind being condu...