This is mind-boggling research. A lab-grown model of the human stomach that can be used to study how infections affect the gastrointestinal system has been developed by a UK-led team of international scientists.
Great Ormond Street Hospital and a veterinary institute in Legnaro, in northern Italy, have grown ‘mini-organs’ in a lab, known as organoids.
The reason these organoids – which are basically cells in a dish – are so important is they provide researchers with tools to study how stomachs function when they’re healthy and when they’re diseased, rather than having to rely on human patients.
