True to type: From human biopsy to complex gut physiology on a chip

(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) Published in Scientific Reports, Donald Ingber's team at the Wyss Institute leverages the organoid approach to isolate intestinal stem cells from human biopsies, but goes on to break up the organoids and culture the patient-specific cells within our Organ Chips where they spontaneously form intestinal villi oriented towards the channel lumen, and the epithelium in close apposition to human intestinal microvascular endothelium
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news