Having the Stomach for It

October 31, 2014

(The Economist) – Dr Lancaster’s organoid was not the first, however. That honour had fallen, a couple of years earlier and largely unnoticed by the world, to a humbler part of the body, the intestine. Intestinoids were created in James Wells’s laboratory at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, in Ohio, in 2011. Now, another group of researchers at Dr Wells’s lab have produced a third sort. As they report in Nature, Kyle McCraken and his colleagues have grown simulacra of stomachs.