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Preclinical study offers hope for Hirschsprung’s
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Preclinical study offers hope for Hirschsprung’s

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles surgeon achieves milestone in using tissue engineering to grow complete gut nervous system CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES Babies with Hirschsprung’s disease are born with an incomplete or absent gut nervous system. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigator Tracy Grikscheit, MD, runs a laboratory that investigates the therapeutic potential of tissue engineering –...

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Stem cell transplants offer hope for sufferers of gut disorders

Enteric neurosphere in mice.   After a baby is born, a souvenir of its months in the womb is usually not long to follow. Its first poo, or meconium, is a lump sum of everything the foetus has ingested for months; a dark sludge, compared by the insomniac readers of parenting forums to engine oil...