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Engineers Grow Pancreatic “Organoids” that Mimic the Real Thing

September 14, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous...

How Do Developing Spinal Cords Choose ‘Heads’ or ‘Tails’?

June 22, 2021
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San Francisco, CA — The progression from a round ball of cells to an embryo with a head and a tail is one of the most critical steps in an organism’s development. But just how cells first start...

To Be or Not To Be: An Organoid

May 7, 2021
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Mini-organs or organoids play a big role in the future of medicine. Their countless applications can help develop and implement tailored therapies for each patient. The revolutionary...

Redox Imaging Allows Measurement of Drug Responses in Lab-Grown Cancer Samples

March 23, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Organoids are tiny three-dimensional cellular assemblies that are grown in a laboratory from tissue-specific cells. They are particularly interesting to biologists because of their ability...

Crying Human Tear Glands Grown in the Lab

March 17, 2021
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the lab of Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute) and the UMC Utrecht used organoid technology to grow miniature human tear glands that actually cry. The organoids...

An Alternative to Animal Experiments

October 15, 2020
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Munich, Germany — The human intestine is vital for both digestion and absorbing nutrients as well as drugs. For any type of research that involves intestines, scientists require research models that...

New Discovery Helps Researchers Rethink Organoid Cultures

October 1, 2020
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Austin, TX — Organoids are stem cell-based tissue surrogates that can mimic the structure and function of organs, and they have become a key component of numerous types of medical research in recent...

Machine Learning Helps Grow Artificial Organs

July 9, 2020
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Dolgoprudny, Russia — Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, and the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute...

Synthesized Cell Culture Process Sets Stage for More Efficient Cancer Research

June 11, 2020
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Fuchu, Tokyo — Researchers in Japan have replicated cancer cells from diseased bladder tissue in dogs, minimizing the use of costly stem cell products. The synthesized tumour cells allow scientists...

Studying the Development of Ovarian Cancer With Organoids

May 27, 2020
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute have modelled the development and progression of high-grade serous ovarian cancer in mini-versions of the...

A Deep Look into Gut’s Hormones

May 14, 2020
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Utrecht University generated an in-depth description of the human hormone-producing cells of the gut, in a large collaborative effort...

First Epigenetic Study in 3D Human Cancer Cells

May 14, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Frequently, promising cancer therapies fail when applied to patients in the real clinical setting. This occurs despite many of these new treatments demonstrating promising results...

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Infects Cells of Intestine

May 4, 2020
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands have found that the coronavirus...

New 3D Cultured Cells Mimic the Progress of NASH

April 2, 2020
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Fuchu, Japan — A research team led by scientists from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has successfully established 3D cultured tissue that mimics liver fibrosis, a key...

New Technique Allows Scientists to ‘Listen in’ on Cancer Cells

February 21, 2020
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London, UK —Scientists have a developed a new technique to decipher how millions of individual cells are communicating with each other in miniature tumours grown in the lab, known as organoids, according...

Organoids (In Vitro Brains) to Study Pediatric Brain Tumours

January 29, 2020
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Trento, Italy — Researchers are at work to find effective treatments to help young patients with brain tumours. Hundreds of brain organoids have been developed in the laboratories of the University...

Testing Therapies on Mini-Tumours of Head and Neck Cancer

June 17, 2019
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Head and neck cancer is an aggressive type of cancer that often grows back, despite patients undergoing harsh treatments. Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) and UMC...

Increasingly Complex Mini-Brains

March 7, 2019
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Scientists improved the initial steps of a standard protocol and produced organoids displaying regionalized brain structures, including retinal pigmented cells. The announcement...

Organoids Created from Patients’ Bladder Cancers could Guide Treatment

April 5, 2018
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New York, NY — Researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the characteristics of actual tumours.

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