Bioengineered Bladder Tissue—Close but Yet So Far!I guess title says it all --- The Journal of Urology.... September 2015 Volume 194, Issue 3, Pages 619620 --- Bioengineered Bladder TissueClose but Yet So Far! --- https://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(15)04152-X/abstract?elsca1=etoc&elsca2=email&elsca3=0022-5347_201509_194_3_&elsca4=Urology --- Department of Urology, University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California --- Current clinical strategies to augment or reconstruct dysfunctional bladders rely on the use of intestine as a tissue substitute. Although this has been the standard protocol for decades, bladder augmentation with gastrointestinal tissue is fraught with short-term and long-term complications. In response to the need for a better bladder tissue substitute urological researchers have turned to tissue engineering strategies. While certain aspects of bladder tissue engineering have elevated the promise of this technology, the lack of success in a recent pediatric clinical trial of bladder augmentation using engineered bladder grafts highlights the gaps between theory and practice that still exist.