Organoids News

Miniature, underdeveloped versions of organs including brains, bladders and pancreases are being grown in petri dishes in laboratories around the world.

In a first, US scientists have grown miniature human brains or human brain organoids, in the skulls of mice, a breakthrough that could boost stem cell research as well as provide insight into neurological disorders such as autism, dementia, and schizophrenia.

Researchers have used a modular approach to build more useful organoids. Organoids are very small balls of living human cells that have grown to resemble in some ways the human brain.

Applying a new method that is used mainly in stem-cell research and regenerative medicine, researchers from the Technical University of Munich have now devised a robust mini-intestine in the lab for molecular research.

Scientists have perfected mini-cultured 3D structures that grow and function much like the outer tissue (cortex) of the brain.

Miniature, underdeveloped versions of organs including brains, bladders and pancreases are being grown in petri dishes in laboratories around the world.

In a first, US scientists have grown miniature human brains or human brain organoids, in the skulls of mice, a breakthrough that could boost stem cell research as well as provide insight into neurological disorders such as autism, dementia, and schizophrenia.

Researchers have used a modular approach to build more useful organoids. Organoids are very small balls of living human cells that have grown to resemble in some ways the human brain.

Applying a new method that is used mainly in stem-cell research and regenerative medicine, researchers from the Technical University of Munich have now devised a robust mini-intestine in the lab for molecular research.

Scientists have perfected mini-cultured 3D structures that grow and function much like the outer tissue (cortex) of the brain.