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Scientists produce kidney tissue using stem cells from human skin
The Organoid Australian scientists were able to produce kidney tissue by turning stem cells from human skin into two of the main structures found in the kidney: the collecting ducts and nephrons. The...
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Scientists Grow Mini-Organs From Cells That Were Genetically Manipulated
The Era of Gene Editing The advances made in genetic engineering and gene editing in recent times have been many and amazing. Improvements to the CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing method have allowed easy,...
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Synthetic Organs: We're One Step Closer to Having Bioartificial Kidneys
Changing treatment A new study being presented at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2016 at McCormick Place in Chicago is poised to revolutionize kidney failure treatment. Dutch...
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Growing Lungs: Scientists Are Using Stem Cells to Try and Grow Human Lungs in...
When Flat Cultures Are Not Enough New research may be changing the way scientists study lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, in particular. Previously, doctors would grow two dimensional...
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Growing Human Mini Brains in Rats Isn't an Ethical Concern...Yet
If I Only Had a Brain Thanks to stem cells, scientists are able to create miniature human brains in lab conditions — and now, it's even possible to grow these organoids in animals. Concerns about the...
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Why Scientists Grew a Tiny Human Esophagus in a Lab
GROWING PAINS The next time you pop a pill, you probably won't think about everything it took just to develop it. We want to develop new medicines and technologies that will help patients, but testing...
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Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys Keep Spawning Rogue Brain Cells
Unwanted Guests Brain cells are not something you want to find growing where you don't expect them. But that's the surprise that awaited a team from Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) when it...
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The First Lab-Grown Placenta Unlocks Brand New Medical Research
Happy Birthday The world's first lab-grown placenta has now survived for a full year, remaining stable in its petri dish. That's really good news, because medical research has long been held back by...
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We Can Now Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in a Lab
Valuable Vessels The latest game changer in diabetes research might not be a new drug or a therapy. Instead, it could be a system of human blood vessels virtually identical to the ones currently...
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Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots
On the International Space Station, clusters of nerve cells called mini-brains are developing in ways that scientists didn't previously think was possible. The organoids were grown from stem cells at...
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Scientists Grow Petri Dish Mini-Brains With Neanderthal DNA
Neanderthal Mini-Brains To study how early humans related to the ancient human subspecies known as Neanderthals, CNN reports, a team of European scientists grew mini-brains from human stem cells that...
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Mini-Organ Research Reveals What COVID-19 Does to the Body
In order to understand how COVID-19 spreads throughout the body, ravaging it in myriad ways, doctors are growing miniature balls or organ-like tissue called "organoids," and infecting them again and...
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Lab Grows Human Tear Glands That Can Actually Cry
In a new first, scientists have produced lab-grown, working tear glands that can actually produce tears. The lab-grown organoids started as a pile of stem cells in a petri dish but have since grown...
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Scientists Just Grew These Grotesque Mini Brains With “Eyes” in a Lab
Scientists have successfully grown brain organoids — tiny, three-dimensional tissue cultures that mimic the real thing — each with their own set of 'eyes,' Live Science reports. According to a study...
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Scientists Grow Hair Follicles in Laboratory for the First Time
In what could presage a groundbreaking treatment for hair loss, Japanese scientists have for the first time ever grown hair follicles in a lab. Researchers at Japan's Yokohama National University said...
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Blobs of Human Brain Implanted in Rat Brains Replace Damaged Vision...
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices, New Scientist reports, a Frankensteinian experiment that had...
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Scientists Grew Tiny, Partially Functional Human Intestines Inside Mice
To better understand our organs and perform tests on a more human-like proxy, researchers are increasingly turning to organoids: miniaturized tissue cultures, usually in the form of organs, that are...
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Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown "Minibrains"
A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab, with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers." In a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in...
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Computer Made From Human Brain Cells Can Perform Voice Recognition
Researchers have created a "biocomputer" made up of lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that they say can perform tasks including voice recognition. As detailed in a new paper...
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Scientists Grow Teeny Tiny Testicles in Laboratory
Good news for bad nuts: scientists have succeeded in growing itty bitty testicle organoids in a lab. In a press release, Israel's Bar-Ilan University announced that its researchers had successfully...
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