We might be able to grow a single layer of duck
liver cells in a dish, but not foie gras that someone would be happy to eat.
Not exact matches
Next, the research team will examine specifically whether these
liver cells obtained from human embryonic stem
cells in a
dish help repair injured
livers in preclinical animal models of
liver disease.
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
By adding a combination of four key factors, a skin
cell can be made into an iPSC, which can then be coaxed into forming
liver, lung and brain
cells in a culture
dish.
Next steps include He's collaboration with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital to retrieve T
cells,
liver cancer
cells and healthy tissue normally removed from patients during surgery, put the mouse receptor genes on these T
cells and monitor
in a
dish both how those
cells now fight the tumor and react to healthy human tissue.
The usual approach is to grow human
cells in a
dish, to infect and try to treat them there, but this is not possible with
liver cells or hepatocytes.