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Brain organoids ready for real-time observation
Cheap, multi-well device for brain development research.
A group of researchers has grown small, self-organising blobs of brain tissue in multi-welled dishes to observe in re...
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Tear glands cry in a dish
Human stem-cell derived organoids make tears.
A team of researchers, led by Marie Bannier-Hélaouët of the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands, has developed orga...
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Grown bone
Most life-like bone organoid to date.
Put away your Skele-gro, because growing new bones might be the realm of science, not magic.Researchers at Eindho...
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Brain buster
Genes help explain differences between Neanderthal and human brains.
Researchers have identified a mutated gene that appears to be responsible for a large disparity between Neanderthal a...
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Big potential in mini-gut organoid
Researchers explore treatment for an unpleasant condition.
This is a mini-gut organoid generated in a laboratory from human stem cells.It has helped US researchers simulate l...
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Grow your own venom to create antivenom
New snake organoids produce and secrete active toxins.
European researchers have used stem cells from snakes to grow mini-glands that make venom, a finding that could addre...
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AI helps cells pull themselves together
Novel approach could streamline the creation of mini-organs.
US scientists have overcome a major stumbling block in the creation of mini-organs, programming cells to take on the ...
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Organoids offer new research opportunities
Endometrial diseases can be imitated in a lab dish.
This is an organoid – a three-dimensional cell structure – grown from the diseased tissue of patients by biomedical r...
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Organoids: a minefield on a chip?
Papers outline the issues around of one of medicine’s frontiers.
In a special edition of the journal Science, leading researchers have catalogued stunning breakthroughs in the develo...
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Pancreatic plumbing
Blood supply is all-important for the survival of transplanted tissue.
We’re one step closer to growing organs from our own cells after researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital ...
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A tiny brainlet
Tiny 3-D brain-like structures can help study damage and diseases of the brain.
An ‘asteroid’ three-dimensional neural circuit generated from human stem cells. Neurons are shown in blue, astrocytes...