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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 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 anyth...

A 9-month-old baby boy from California was pronounced dead Wednesday after he was left alone in his father's hot car for 10 hours. According to police, the San Jose resident forgot to drop off his son at his babysitter's home before heading to work and only learned of what happened when he returned to pick up his car. Just after 7pm Wednesday, officers received a 911 call about an unresponsive baby in the backseat of an SUV parked in the 3700 of Payne Avenue in San Jose. First responders who arrived on the scene pronounced the child dead from a suspected heat stroke a short time later. Temperatures hovered around the 80-degree mark Wednesday, but inside the locked car it was likely at least 20 degrees hotter, NBC Bay Areareported. The boy's father, who also has two older children, followed his usual routine Wednesday morning, parking his silver Honda SUV on Payne Avenue before switching to his work vehicle - a large box truck stocked with supplies for vending machines. The...