UTMB’s David Niesel and Norbert Herzog look at research efforts in growing replacement organs for those needing a transplant using a person’s own stem cells. One of the challenges is finding a foundation or scaffolding for the cells to grow upon in the lab. A new possible solution has come from a source that people often ding creepy, spiders. This is good news for the 120,000 people in the U.S. who need organ transplant