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First lab-grown mini-thyroids use patients’ own tissue

15 maart 2021
EurekAlert

To investigate potential alternative treatment strategies for patients with hypothyroidism, researchers have now for the first time succeeded in generating thyroid mini-organs in the lab. In a new study published in Stem Cell Reports, Robert Coppes and colleagues from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, used healthy thyroid tissue from patients undergoing surgical removal of the thyroid to grow mini-thyroid organs in a lab which resembled thyroid glands in their structure and protein content.

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