2015 Research Annual Report

Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery

Intestine organoids grown from stem cells open doors for bioengineered tissue, personalized medicine

Doctors in the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery are exploring unprecedented areas of tissue bioengineering and personalized medicine through their documented ability to grow human intestinal tissue from stem cells, transplant the tissues into mice and watch them perform as fully functioning human intestines.