The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries ...

Organoids are miniature, simplified versions of an organ. Over the past two decades, scientists have developed them for the gut, lung, liver, mammary gland, brain, and more. Now, researchers at Yale ...

Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of neural tissue model aspects of ...

As more labs have adopted this methodology, they’ve created increasingly complex structures, including interconnected systems ...