Researchers have grown a mouse pituitary gland for the first time from embryonic stem cells. Or rather, the pituitary gland grew itself, after Japanese researchers coaxed embryonic stem cells to form the type of tissues that normally surround the gland.
Japanese researchers grew this pituitary gland in the laboratory from embryonic stem cells.
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