Researchers grow pituitary glands from embryonic stem cells

Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in Nature reports that scientists have been able to grow working pituitary glands from embryonic stem cells from mice. When these were transplanted into mice with defects in the pituitary gland, the levels of hormones missing in the body were raised.

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