Erwin Loh: Researchers are Making Ever More Sophisticated Mini Organs and Their Own Blood Vessels
Erwin Loh, President and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper published in Nature:
“Researchers are making ever more sophisticated mini organs in the lab – and now they can grow their own blood vessels.
The structures, which mimic the heart, liver, lungs and gut, are some of the most complex models of human development ever made, and contain cell populations and structures not seen before in these models.
Last month in Science and Cell, two separate teams reported creating vascularized organoids using a new approach that grows the organoids with vessels from their earliest stages. Starting with pluripotent stem cells, which can transform into almost any cell type in the body, the researchers coaxed the cells to form vessels as they were making the other organ tissue.”
Prashant Kumar, Chief Scientific Officer at Datar Cancer Genetics, shared this post, adding:
“The world of science is evolving at an extraordinary pace.
What we are witnessing today is just the beginning.
The next decade will be phenomenal growth, transforming the way we understand life, disease, and the universe itself.”
Title: Mini hearts, lungs and livers made in lab now grow their own blood vessels
You can read the Full Article in Nature.
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