Functional intestinal tissue created from stem cells
A crypt-like structure with the intestinal epithelium expressing CDX2 (green) and dividing cells expressing the mitotic marker Ki67 (red) - nuclei are blue (Image: Jason Spence)
Article Summary
In a world first, scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have created functioning fetal intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells. It is now hoped that such lab-grown tissue could be used to research treatments for gastro-intestinal diseases, or for transplantation.
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