An artificially grown mass of cells or tissue that resembles an organ.
New research using brain organoids suggests that stem cell senescence, where cells are halted in a suspended state, is responsible for the fetal brain changes caused by sodium valproate...
Details of how to develop three-dimensional organoid models of the cervix have been published...
Mutations in three autism-associated genes have been shown to affect the pace that certain types of neurons emerge in the developing brain...
For the first time, scientists have engineered a miniature stomach, which displays cellular and functional complexity similar to its human counterpart...
Pancreatic organoids, grown using a newly developed gel, have enabled scientists to better understand pancreatic cancer...
The first human 'lung-in-a-dish' model, known as a lung organoid, representing all lung cell types and allowing replication of SARS-CoV-2 infection has been produced...
Brain organoids grown in the lab can develop primitive eyes called optic cups, containing key cell types that are able to respond to light...
A mutated protein associated with Alzheimer's disease may trigger the death of brain cells known to be vulnerable in frontotemporal dementia...
A stem cell model has been developed to highlight the route of infection of the brain by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19...
A mouse embryo has been developed artificially in a lab from embryonic stem cells that represents the most sophisticated in vitro mammalian model ever created...
