Scientists have found ways of culturing organ-specific tissue from stem cells that could change the way diseases are studied and treated.
by Javier Barbuzano for HSCI
Imagine the possibility of creating individualized, complex collections of cells that bear a resemblance to a patient’s own tissues. That technology — the ability to grow ‘organoids’ — is becoming a reality and is finding new uses every day, in part thanks to the work of scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Organoids are tiny, self-organized three-...
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