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Salivary gland mini-organs grown from pluripotent stem cells offer potential path to treating severe dry mouth

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Salivary gland mini-organs grown from pluripotent stem cells offer potential path to treating severe dry mouth
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Extreme dry mouth, caused by radiation used to treat cancer and by autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren's disease, radically affects quality of life for sufferers. It can hamper speaking, swallowing and eating, and for years has seemed an intractable problem.

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