Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully
grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international
prize for the scientific and technological advance with the most potential to
replace, reduce or refine the use of animals in science (the 3Rs).
Dr Meritxell Huch from the Gurdon Institute, who tonight
receives the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of
Animals in Research (NC3Rs) 3Rs Prize, has developed a method that enables
adult mouse stem cells to grow and expand into fully functioning
three-dimensional liver tissue.