
Organoids: A new window into disease, development and discovery
Nov 7, 2017 · Organoids can range in size from less than the width of a hair to five millimeters. There are potentially as many types of organoids as there are different tissues and organs in the body. To …
Brain organoids replicate key events in human brain development ...
Sep 29, 2022 · Organoids are particularly useful for studying human development, where standard approaches used to study other animals can’t be used. But some scientists have previously …
Improved human brain organoids to boost neurological disease research
Jun 5, 2019 · These advances mean that brain organoids can now be used as viable experimental systems to study diseases in patient tissues directly, and to compare different drug effects on human …
Improving skin organoids | Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI)
Jun 17, 2020 · The organoids also produced Merkel cells, specialized touch-responsive cells of the skin that have been implicated in diseases such as Merkel cell carcinoma. “The inclusion of these other …
Photo gallery: Organoids | Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI)
Photo gallery: Organoids Culturing organoids Section of a brain organoid Human enteroids under the microscope Brain organoids under the microscope
Different autism risk genes, same effects on brain development
Feb 10, 2022 · When looking at organoids made from different donors, the overall changes in neural development were similar, yet the level of severity varied across individuals. The risk genes’ effects …
Modeling genetic diseases in mini-kidney organoids
Oct 23, 2015 · The scientists then coaxed the stem cells to differentiate into mature kidney cells that self-assembled into functional organoids with the physical complications related to their genetic …
Using organoids to study early-stage lung cancer
Sep 10, 2020 · Lung organoids made from mouse lung stem cells, with a cancer-initiating mutation in the KRAS gene (green). Credit: Antonella Dost, Boston Children’s Hospital Lung cancer, the leading …
Engineered miniature kidneys come of age - Harvard University
Feb 11, 2019 · Mini-organs, called organoids, are grown in a culture dish. They contain many of the cell types and complex microarchitectures found in human organs, such as the kidney, intestine, and …
Cyborg brain organoids offer insight into early brain development
Feb 7, 2022 · Since their development more than a decade ago, brain organoids — brain-like structures grown in petri dishes from human stem cells — have helped scientists better understand a range of …