Skip to content

Stanford Medicine researchers are creating models of livers in a dish -- organoids -- to better understand liver disease.

Stanford Medicine researchers are creating models of livers in a dish -- organoids -- to better understand liver disease.

Published on

Liver cells expressing high levels of telomerase – a protein normally associated with resistance to aging and implicated in cancers and stem cell maintenance – are necessary to regenerate the organ after normal cell turnover or in response to damage.

Liver cells expressing high levels of telomerase – a protein normally associated with resistance to aging and implicated in cancers and stem cell maintenance – are necessary to regenerate the organ after normal cell turnover or in response to damage.