Intestinal Organoids for Transplantation in Mice
September 25, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
Several laboratories have been able to grow up functional human “organoids” (of a few hundred cells), but discovered that in addition to lacking a blood supply, the organoids don’t grow much or become more complex as they would in a body environment. To address part of this problem, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital used nitinol springs to simulate normal movement of intestines (using human organoids attached in mice intestines) and found that the organoids doubled in size and complexity. MORE
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