Great progress thanks to mini organs - Science Daily

Life-like organ replicas -- so-called 3D organoids -- are a good way to research disease processes. A team has now presented a kind of blueprint for such a model of the cervix.

A few stem cells, various growth factors, four to six weeks of time -- and of course a great deal of expertise are needed to create a scaled-down but nevertheless lifelike and functional replica of a… [+4896 chars]

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