Experts urge caution as lab-grown organ success raises transplant hopes

MEDICAL experts have sounded a note of caution after the world’s first human organ grown in a laboratory and transplanted successfully into a human was announced.

Transplant groups said it was “vital” that people continued to sign up to organ donor registers in spite of a medical breakthrough in the US in which seven young patients received new bladders.

The study, published online in The Lancet medical journal, has prompted hopes major organs such as hearts could be regenerated in the future.