Stem cells turned into complex, functioning intestinal tissue in lab
Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, scientists have created functioning human intestinal tissue in the laboratory from pluripotent stem cells. Scientists have demonstrated that human pluripotent stem cells in a petri dish can be instructed to efficiently form human tissue with three-dimensional architecture and cellular composition remarkably similar to intestinal tissue.