Tissues assemble! Rebuilding the human periportal liver in a dish.

Waddell, Scott H; Boulter, Luke · Cell Stem Cell · 2026

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

In their recent Nature paper, Yuan et al. reconstruct patient-specific periportal architecture by assembling hepatocyte organoids with cholangiocytes and portal mesenchyme. Unlike previous attempts, these multicellular units recapitulate much of the cell-cell interaction found in the adult human liver, providing a new sophisticated platform to understand liver biology.

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