Woman born without a vagina gets one grown in a laboratory.

                  

 

A woman given a vagina grown in a laboratory has spoken of her hope to have a family one day.

She is one of four women born without a vagina who have been given the new treatment, revealed last week.

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine engineered the organs using the women's own cells.

    The unnamed woman, from Mexico, is one of four women born without a vagina who have been given the new treatment, revealed last week.
The organ is engineered using a woman's own cells

The new organs have been given to women born with MRKH - Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare genetic condition in which the vagina and uterus are underdeveloped or absent

One of the women, interviewed by New Scientist, credits the procedure with giving her a normal life.

She said: 'At the beginning it wasn't easy, thinking that a part of your body was going to be made in a laboratory. It was difficult to understand. 

'But as the years pass and with the good results, you find a way of life which is different but not too far from normality.

'You start from a point where you are scared of everything, of trying anything – you feel you aren't normal.

                                                                               

The new organs have been given to women born with MRKH - Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare genetic condition in which the vagina and uterus are underdeveloped or absent

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