Mouse Intestines Grown from Stem Cells
January 23, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
Tufts University scientists have created an organ-on-a-chip model of mouse small intestines. Cells in the chip, grown from stem cells on a silk scaffold, are enteroids, normally found in the intestinal epithelium. ” The 3D intestinal model had many of the same characteristics of a human intestine, including the ability to secrete digestive enzymes and the tight junctions typically found in the organ. [These researchers] believe those characteristics would give the scaffold the ability to replicate a realistic human response to infections of the gut.” MORE
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