miniorgans

Developing and testing new treatments or vaccines for humans almost always requires animal trials, but these experiments can sometimes take years to complete and can raise ethical concerns…

Cambridge scientists have identified an off-patent drug that can be repurposed to prevent COVID-19 -- and may be capable of protecting against future variants of the virus -- in research…

To do this, researchers isolated stem cells from patient stomach samples, and grow them under special conditions in the lab to obtain mini-stomachs in a dish that mimic the behaviour of a…

The development of alveoli in organoids derived from mammary-gland tissue follows the same physical principles as the formation of discrete droplets in a water jet. Many of the organ systems…