Tiny Organs in the Lab: Mini-Brains and Mini-Tumours in Drug Discovery
Imagine a tiny piece of human tissue in a dish behaving like a real organ. That’s essentially what organoids are: self-organising, three-dimensional “mini-organs” grown from human cells. Using stem cells (which can turn into many cell types) or adult tissue samples, researchers coax the cells in a gel or matrix to multiply and arrange themselves […]