Create the stomach in the world's first laboratory

Scientists on October 29 said they created the first "mini stomach" in the world, which could be helpful for cancer studies, stomach ulcers and diabetes.

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This "mini-stomach" is actually tissue consisting of many cell shoots as "miniature version of the stomach".

In the journal Nature, researchers say they are made of modified pluripotent stem cells to grow into stomach cells.

Human stomach tissues (marked in green) are made from pluripotent stem cells - (Photo: AP)

Initial tests on mice showed that they could be used as "patches" of gaps caused by duodenal ulcers. They also marked an important step in how to stimulate stem cells to become 3D structures.

Scientists say 'mini stomach' also facilitates studies of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and obesity, thereby helping to find new drugs to treat the disease.

It can also pave the way for preventing stomach cancer, even one day that will help create an artificial stomach instead.

Jim Wells, a researcher at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Ohio, USA), says scientists now use animals to study human disease.

However, this solution is not optimal with the stomach due to the structure and biology of the stomach of very different animal stomachs.

Therefore, creating a "simulated" stomach stomach will help them a lot.