PEOPLE whose lungs are damaged by diseases such as emphysema may one day have
their lungs patched up with replacement tissue. Researchers in London said last
week that they had for the first time created lung cells out of mouse embryonic
stem cells—a primitive type of cell found in embryos that can become any
other cell in the body.
Anne Bishop and her colleagues from the Imperial College Centre for Tissue
Engineering in London, took some stem cells from a mouse embryo and left them to
grow into clusters known as embryoid bodies. They then continued to grow these…
