Unlocking Secrets of the Stomach (VIDEO)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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Jim Wells, Ph.D., divisions of Developmental Biology and Endocrinology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, explains how the first-time molecular generation of 3-D human gastric organoids (hGOs) presents new opportunities for drug discovery, modeling early stages of stomach cancer and studying some of the underpinnings of obesity related diabetes. The study was published online Oct. 29 in Nature.

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