Event Review: The Royal Society – Remaking ourselves
What does it mean to be human? Have you ever questioned the meaning of self or humanity? Dr Yee Yen Goh reviews the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar 2022 award lecture, given by Dr Philip Ball...
An artificially grown mass of cells or tissue that resembles an organ.
What does it mean to be human? Have you ever questioned the meaning of self or humanity? Dr Yee Yen Goh reviews the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar 2022 award lecture, given by Dr Philip Ball...
A new method for the creation of tumour organoids has been developed, which allows them to be used with advanced imaging to study cancer in greater detail...
by Jake Knox
Insulin-secreting organoids created from human stomach stem cells have been developed, illuminating a potential novel approach for diabetes treatment...
Dr Brett Kagan discusses how his team is developing brain organoids in order to harness the inherent information processing potential found in neural systems...
Model livers, which contain cells that are genetically identical to tumour cells, have been developed to study a rare paediatric liver cancer...
A fully human ovarian organoid has been grown in the lab for the first time, with potential applications to improve understanding and treatment of female infertility...
by Joel Mendes
Brain organoids made from human stem cells can integrate successfully with the visual system in rats, offering hope for repairing brain damage...
A new study, published in Nature, by world-renowned Stanford neuroscientist Professor Sergiu Pasca involved the transfer of human brain organoids into the brains of rats. Here, Dr Insoo Hyun, director of the Centre for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts, speaks with Professor Pasca about his research...
Retinal organoids grown in a dish have shed light on the mechanisms behind a genetically inherited cause of blindness called Usher syndrome...
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