11/09/2011 PERMALINK
Researchers create a pituitary gland from scratch. Last spring, a research team at Japan's RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology created retina-like structures from cultured mouse embryonic stem cells. This week, in a breakthrough towards stem cell generation of replacements for any of your organs damaged by aging or disease. The same group reports that it's achieved an even more challenging feat of organ engineering, synthesizing a stem-cell-derived pituitary gland.