Miniature brain models (organoids) help evaluate treatments for myelin damage in multiple sclerosis. These human-derived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fluorescent images illustrating cell types in brain organoids. In the past decade, lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue began ...

Organoids are miniature tissue or organ models formed by stem cells (including pluripotent stem cells, tissue-specific adult ...

A team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Zhongwei Li, PhD, has produced some of the most complex and mature lab-grown kidney ...

Whatever you do, don’t call them "mini-brains," say University of Utah Health scientists. Name aside, the seed-sized organoids—which are grown in the lab from human cells—provide insights into the ...

The work towards finding a cure for an incurable diagnosis continues, thanks to Notre Dame. Professor Meenal Datta works in aerospace and mechanical engineering and has been conducting experiments on ...

Animal models have served as excellent models of many aspects of human biology and disease, but they cannot mimic every part of human physiology. Scientists have recently developed a new kind of ...

For the roughly 3 million Americans living with inflammatory bowel disease, the current treatment options tell a frustrating ...

Experimental infections, where a pathogen is introduced into the host body to see its effects in action, are considered the gold standard for assessing how vulnerable a host is, offering clear ...