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200 Printed Kidney Organoids in Ten Minutes

Mini kidney from stem cell
Collaborating bioengineers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and San Diego-based Organovo have demonstrated [MORE]

Organoids in Infectious Disease Research

Organoid applications
In 2009, Hans Clevers in The Netherlands first reported a method for growing and expanding human adult stem cell-derived [MORE]

Stranger than Fiction–Brain Organoids that “Think”

Human brain organoids
A neuroscience lab at University of California-San Diego “. . . has connected organoids to walking robots, modified [MORE]

Squeezing Cells Promotes Faster Organoid Growth

 
Grow organoids faster by squeezing them
MIT engineers have found that compressing different cells in hydrogel causes them to differentiate and [MORE]

More on Bioprinting Organoids

Aspiration-assisted freeform bioprinting process
From Penn State bioengineers: “we demonstrate 3D aspiration-assisted freeform bioprinting of tissue spheroids by precisely positioning them [MORE]

Terahertz Light Changes Gene Expression

Terahertz Waves Control Gene Expression
Japanese scientists have found that terahertz radiation, unlike ultraviolet or infrared light, can alter gene expression [MORE]

Micro-Electrode Chip for Determining Nerve Transmission

Dual-mode microelectrode array (DM-MEA) system
From bioengineers in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland: “We report on a dual-mode high-density microelectrode array, which [MORE]

Intestinal Organoids

Next generation organoids
Intestines have the highest cell turnover in the body.  But could lab-grown intestinal organoids mimic that behavior?  The [MORE]

Biology of Natural Regeneration

Researching cell regeneration
“How do cellular collectives orchestrate the building of complex, three-dimensional structures?   While genomes predictably encode the proteins present [MORE]

Optic Nerve Stem Cells

Optic nerve
For the first time, scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified stem cells that give [MORE]

Alginate Shield for Stem Cell Therapy

 
Biomaterial protects stem cells
Rice University “researchers have been developing a variety of biomaterial carriers to encapsulate cells, and protect them [MORE]

Stem Cell Therapy for T1 Diabetes

Human islet-like organoids express insulin
“Using stem cell technology, Salk researchers generated the first human insulin-producing pancreatic cell clusters able to [MORE]

Successful Transplant of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in a Baby

Human ES cell-derived hepatocytes
The National Center for Child Health and Development (Tokyo Japan) announced a successful “bridge” treatment using stem [MORE]

3D Printing a Human Heart Pump

3D Printed heart
“Scientists at the University of Minnesota have 3D printed a beating heart muscle ‘pump’ consisting of pluripotent stem [MORE]