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Lab-grown mini-organs are opening up new ways to model biology, diseases and new treatments. Now scientists have created the most advanced stomach organoids so far, composed of three cell types which allows them to contract and produce acid.

Lab-grown replicas of the pancreas have been developed by scientists at MIT, with the team hopeful the technology behind them can not just help develop new drugs for cancers afflicting the organ, but other particularly deadly types as well.

Lab-grown mini-brains can help us crack the puzzle of our own minds. Scientists have made a major breakthrough by growing mini-brains with the pathological features of Parkinson’s disease for the first time, paving the way towards better treatments.

Researchers have made a striking breakthrough in lab-grown mini organs. Using induced pluriopotent stem cells, the team induced brain organoids to develop rudimentary eye structures that can sense light and send signals to the rest of the brain.

We currently rear animals for meat and dairy, cut down forests for wood, harvest organs from the deceased and mine the earth for diamonds. But what if all these things, and more, could be grown in a lab?

An extraordinary new study has detailed the development of a nearly complete mouse embryo – with muscles, blood vessels and a tiny beating heart – grown in a lab dish out of stem cells, presenting the most sophisticated “embryo in a dish” created to date.

Scientists at UCLA and Stanford University have carried out a first-of-a-kind analysis of 20-month-old lab-grown brain organoids to find that they had matured much like a human brain, following an internal clock to guide their development.