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Japanese Scientists Use Stem Cells to Grow Human Liver in the Skull of a Mouse
Using stem cells from human skin, Japanese scientists have grown a small human liver inside the skull of a mouse.
Hideki Taniguchi and Takanori Takebe from Yokohama City University used stem cells generated from human skin cells and developed them into percussor liver cells.
Then they added other cells from umbilical cord blood vessels. The combination of cells then "guided itself" to form a small structure similar to liver tissue, Takebe said.
"We mixed and graded the cells onto the culture dish and they moved to form a cluster," he said. "It was a surprising outcome from what was, to be honest, an accident."
