Engineered salivary glands keep juices flowing

Organs grown in a lab dish do their job when transplanted into mice

GLAND TRANSPLANT  Engineered salivary glands were successfully transplanted into mice lacking the organs. Mouse nerve fibers, green, infiltrate the transplanted tissue, red, in this micrograph. 

T. Tsuji et al. Nature Comm. 2013

Salivary glands engineered in the lab wet the mouths of mice after transplantation, researchers report October 1 in Nature Communications.