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Allison L Speer1, Xi Ren2, Eoin P McNeill1

  • 1McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

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|April 12, 2021
PubMed
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Regenerative medicine offers new ways to heal gastrointestinal diseases. Technologies like organoids and decellularization use patient cells to regenerate tissues, nearing clinical use.

Keywords:
Digestive tractOrgan bioengineeringScaffoldsStem cellsTissue engineering

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