Thyroid in a dish
Stem cells assemble themselves into a working gland
Web edition : Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Embryonic stem cells formed hollow, hormone-producing spheres (green) in a lab dish that, when transplanted into mice, worked like a functioning thyroid gland.
F. Antonica/S. Costagliola Lab/IRBHM/ULB
Cells following this thyroid development program form hollow, hormone-producing spheres like those found in a normal thyroid gland.
Researchers tested the dish-grown glands by transplanting them into mice whose thyroids had been destroyed with radiation. The new organs made hormones and reversed the mice?s thyroid problems.
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345711/title/Thyroid_in_a_dish
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