Raising the internal organs right in the living body of mice

In the past, researchers have cultivated the organ's success in laboratory animals, but the process has yet to be applied in living organisms that are extremely complex and difficult to control.

However, the team of scientists at Edinburgh University for the first time in the world has successfully done that. Accordingly, the team successfully cultured the thymus on the body of a rat individual by "reprogramming" genes in regenerating tissue cells and combining them with supporting cells.

According to the research team, the culture process does not require the support of cell membrane amniotic fluid or any other procedure to stimulate development. Operation is simply put cells into the mouse body and waiting. Even the implementation process went smoothly and did not encounter any obstacles. The results showed that the thymus gland develops complete with full size and completely contains T cells, part of the immune system. This result is different from previous studies, which can only produce fully immature internal organs.

Thymus gland - One of the important parts in the immune system

According to the researchers, the successful application of endogenous reproductive techniques on mice will open new hopes for human application. However, this is just an initial success because as we know, the thymus gland is only one of the simplest internal organs present in many different animals. The problem is that if applied to people with larger internal dimensions, the structure and mode of operation is more complex, requiring that the approach needs to be further studied.

Although currently, the method of intracellular cultivation of researchers in Edinburgh has only been tested successfully on mice and cannot yet produce heart or lung immediately for humans. But obviously, we have the right to hope for a bright future, when people with cancer do not have to wait for a long time to find the appropriate donor who has completely lost the system. Immunity (typically bone marrow transplanters) can be reproduced quickly.