Finnish patient’s gets new jaw from own stems cells:

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65 years –old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen. Researchers said on Friday the breakthrough opened up new ways to treat severe tissue damage and made the prospect of custom-made living spares parts for humans a step closer to reality .’’There have been couple of similar-sounding procedure before, but these didn’t use the patient’s own stem cells that were first cultured and expanded in laboratory and differentiated into bone tissue,” said Rita Surinam of the Regea Institute of regenerative Medicine ,part of the University of Tampere. She said the patient was recovering more quickly than he would have if he had received a bone graft from his leg.