Grow your body back? From axolotls to human tissues

"Unlike humans, axolotls can regenerate an entire arm or a leg if they sustain an injury.
What have we learnt about regenerating body parts from these animals?
Why is now the right time for learning even more?"

Damage to the cartilage in your joints does not heal spontaneously. We found a clever trick to help the cartilage regenerate, using stem cells to support your own cartilage cells. We take cartilage from the damaged area, free the cells from the surrounding tissue, and mix them with stem cells from a donor. We can do all this within a single surgery of a couple of hours, and the results have been remarkable in the >80 patients we've treated so far!

Everyone wants to live their life without the boring parts, but what if the boring parts become your life? I'm talking about peeing here, and for patients in the urology department this is their life. Our group studies the building of organs in the lab (tissue engineering) to restore function and happiness in life.