Small, intestinalized colons can be transplanted into rats to treat short bausindrome. The small intestinized colons treated the short balsendrome and the rats survived longer. There's still a lot of work to be done but this is a great proof of principle that organoids could be used as treatments for disease. If safety is proven, it will also open up the possibility of organigenation selapy for patients with shot boe simplar.
The surprising structure of protons, and a method for growing small intestines for transplantation.
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00:45 Probing the proton’s interior
Although studied for decades, the internal structure of the proton is still throwing up surprises for physicists. This week, a team of researchers report an unexpected imbalance in the antimatter particles that make up the proton.
Short Bowel Syndrome is an often fatal condition that results from the removal of the small intestine. Treatment options are limited to transplantation, but donor intestines are hard to come by and can be rejected by the body. Now researchers may have developed a method to grow a replacement small intestine using stem cells and a small section of colon.