Researchers transplant regenerated oesophagus (retracted article)
[On 21 March 2017 Nature Communications retracted the paper “Experimental orthotopic transplantation of a tissue-engineered oesophagus in rats” by Sjöqvist S, et al, due to concerns regarding the integrity of the study]Tissue engineering has been used to construct natural oesophagi, which in combination with bone marrow stem cells have been safely and effectively transplanted in rats. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that the transplanted organs remain patent and display regeneration of nerves, muscles, epithelial cells and blood vessels. The new method has been