Biomedical researchers at KU Leuven have found a new way to study endometrial diseases such as endometriosis and cancer. They were able to grow three-dimensional cell structures from disease... Read more
By combining engineered polymeric materials known as hydrogels with complex intestinal tissue known as organoids – made from human pluripotent stem cells – researchers have taken an importan... Read more
Stem Cell Derived Organoids Fill Gap in Modeling Common Ailments Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that function much like natur... Read more
In the latest edition of the professional journal “Science”, Jürgen Knoblich, a leading authority on stem cells and deputy director of the IMBA (Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the... Read more
Researchers Can Grow Functional Stomach and Intestinal Tissues to Study Diseases, New Drugs Scientists report in Nature using pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a pe... Read more
The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny “artificial brains” that could be used to develop personalized cancer treatment... Read more
Organoids are miniature organs that can be grown in the lab from a person’s stem cells. They can be used to model diseases, and in the future could be used to test drugs or even replace dama... Read more
Synthetic scaffold helps airways reach maturity Researchers at the University of Michigan have transplanted lab-grown mini lungs into immunosuppressed mice where the structures were able to... Read more
Mini midbrains provide next generation platforms to investigate human brain biology, diseases and therapeutics Scientists in Singapore have made a big leap on research on the ‘mini-brain’. T... Read more
Stem-cell biology and gene editing advances offer hope for kidney regeneration, drug discovery Mini-kidney organoids have now been grown in a laboratory by using genome editing to re-create... Read more
Technique Produces ‘Organoids’ Useful in Cancer Research, Drug Screening A UCSF-led team has developed a technique to build tiny models of human tissues, called organoids, more precisely tha... Read more
Scientists are reporting significant progress toward creating “homo minutus” — a benchtop human. Researchers have successfully developed and analyzed a liver human organ co... Read more
A group of stem-cell biologists have grown an “organoid” that resembles a brain REGENERATIVE medicine, the science of producing tissues and organs from stem cells, is a rapidly developing fi... Read more
