Lab-grown 3-D intestine regenerates gut lining in dogs

Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Working with gut stem cells from humans and mice, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Pittsburgh have successfully grown healthy intestine atop a 3-D scaffold made of a substance used in surgical sutures. In a further step that takes their work well beyond proof of concept, researchers report their laboratory-created […]

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