Four teenage girls given lab-grown vaginas

Laboratory-grown vaginas engineered from patients’ own cells have successfully been implanted into four teenage girls.

Tests showed the organs, constructed from muscle cells and the epithelial cells which line body cavities, functioned normally.

The girls, who were aged 13 to 18 at the time of the surgery, were born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome.