NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Months after being implanted into research animals, "neo-bladders" created from progenitor cells appear to function much like natural bladders, researchers have shown. Stem ...

April 3, 2006 — Investigators successfully grew and implanted tissue-engineered autologous bladders into 7 patients needing cystoplasty, according to a report in the April 4 issue of The Lancet.

Tengion Inc., a biotechnology company with operations in Piedmont Triad Research Park, said that its neo-bladder technology showed positive results in a recent preclinical research study. Tengion is ...

EAST NORRITON, Pa. -- Tengion Inc. has started its third Phase 2 clinical trial involving overactive bladders and its neo-bladder augment technology. According to The World Journal of Urology, ...