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.

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