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 My father showed me this incredible research about a month ago and I’ve been a slacker on sharing the news. It really is incredible...James Wells, a developmental biologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio), has successfully grown stem cells into organ tissue — specifically, intestinal tissue. (left) “This is really a major advance in the field because it provides an experimental system for studying the development of the human intestine,” says Steven Cohn, a gastroenterologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. “This will allow one to study human organ development in the test tube in a way that we haven't been able to do before.” As you can imagine, this could mean amazing things for research in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. More here: nature.com (Thanks Dad!) |
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