Tiny human adrenal glands – just like those in a fetus – have been grown in the lab and they could help us treat hormone-related conditions
at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues have grown IPS cells derived from the blood of three people into adrenal glands that are roughly 2 millimetres wide.
“Our adrenal glands have pretty much everything you’d see in that of a fetus during early development,” says Sasaki. “As adrenal glands produce many critical hormones that are essential for life, having an accurate model of how they develop will provide a way to understand how we can treat conditions where people lack important adrenal hormones like cortisol.”
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