A cocktail of
human cell types mixed in a dish (inset, left) spontaneously forms a three dimensional liver bud (inset, right) which is transplanted into a mouse for final development into a
Not exact matches
► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve «
mixing human stem
cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop» while it «reconsiders its rules» for this
type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.
They tried hundreds of different recipes; eventually they discovered that if they
mixed liver precursor
cells (derived from iPS
cells) with two other
types of standard
human cell lines known to be important for embryonic liver development, then the
cells would spontaneously form a 4 to 5 - millimeter 3D structure called a liver bud.