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Researchers generate lab-grown human tissue model for food tube cancer

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Researchers say they have created a laboratory-grown three-dimensional ‘organoid’ model that is derived from human tissue and designed to advance understanding about how early stages of cancer develop at the gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) — the point where the digestive system’s food tube meets the stomach.

Source: ScienceDaily.com