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07 October 2026
Making Absence Grow
Creating something that's not there and yet is vital sounds like a conundrum. Tubes and sacs of the body's organs and transport highways share such a feature: an absence of tissue in the middle – a lumen – but how is this initiated and formed? Here, using computer modelling in pancreatic organoids – lab-grown developing pancreas in miniature – this study reveals the pressures and processes leading to lumen formation (in blue)
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