Volume 25, No 9, Sep 2015

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 25 Issue 9, September 2015: 995-996

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Expanding intestinal stem cells in culture

Inha Heo¹ and Hans Clevers¹

¹Hubrecht Institute, Royal Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW) and University Medical Centre Utrecht, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands Correspondence: Hans Clevers(h.clevers@hubrecht.eu)

Culturing intestinal stem cells into 3D organoids results in heterogeneous cell populations, reflecting the in vivo cell type diversity. In a recent paper published in Nature, Wang et al. established a culture condition for a highly homogeneous population of intestinal stem cells.

10.1038/cr.2015.83

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