Three-Organoid System Takes Shape (VIDEO)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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This computer animation illustrates how two gut spheroids grown from stem cells merge and begin forming the liver, pancreas and biliary tract. Details about the project, led by Takanori Takebe, MD, were posted online Sept. 25, 2019, in the journal Nature.

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