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Scientists from Cincinnati Children's and colleagues based in Japan report achieving a major step forward in organoid technology: producing liver tissue that grows its own internal blood vessels.

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These vessels may not function inside an organ as well as progenitor cells from that organ. Location and timing also were crucial to achieving the initial vessel formation.