Toward Tissue Engineering the Human Colon
December 15, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
This is a stunning story of regenerative medicine. Medical researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles took colon tissue from patients presenting Hirschsprung’s disease (a colon pathology arising from an absence of certain nerve cells in the gut) and grew the tissue while introducing green fluorescent-labeled neural progenitor cells. The resulting regeneration restored intestinal motility and other natural functions. MORE
Image Credit: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles