"We were able to create patients' own tissue that actually belongs there, " said Dr. Anthony Atala, lead author of the study and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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Daryl Rosenbaum, MD, director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, recommends that people with colds begin working out at 50 percent intensity.

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Earlier this year, regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported that they had engineered five urethras between March 2004 and July 2007.

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Over the next hour or so, the National Institutes of Health and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where scientists were analyzing the data work, issued press releases saying they would not comment until the data was published in a medical journal.

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To further their understanding of what was going on, Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro then joined forces with Frank Wood and his colleagues at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.

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