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21 November 2025
Liver Little
How do organs 'know' how big to get as an animal reaches maturity? Using a mix of techniques including 3D imaging, genetic mapping and cell tracking, this study finds that the blood vessels (vascularisation) developing in new-born mouse liver lobules – the units that make up the whole organ – contribute to determining the size of the liver at adulthood.
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- Video from work by D. Berfin Azizoglu and colleagues
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Developmental Biology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, November 2025
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