A team led by Japanese researchers said Thursday that it had created a miniature multiorgan structure from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, in a world first.
The one-centimeter structure consists of miniature versions of the liver, pancreas and bile duct, according to its report published in the electronic edition of the British journal Nature.
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