{"id":151985,"date":"2022-12-06T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-future-of-replacement-organs-is-quite-possibly-here-robust-human-intestinal-organoids-created-in-a-lab"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:23:06","slug":"the-future-of-replacement-organs-is-quite-possibly-here-robust-human-intestinal-organoids-created-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-future-of-replacement-organs-is-quite-possibly-here-robust-human-intestinal-organoids-created-in-a-lab","title":{"rendered":"The future of replacement organs is (quite possibly) here: Robust human intestinal organoids created in a lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-replacement-organs-is-quite-possibly-here-robust-human-intestinal-organoids-created-in-a-lab3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing miniature organ-like tissues in the lab is already within our reach. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new approach that enables intestinal mini-organs to be grown more easily and efficiently in the lab. This holds immense promise for regenerative medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in November in <i>Cell Reports Methods<\/i>, researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) reveal that applying a few specialized lab techniques yields intestine-like tissues of predictable size and composition.<\/p>\n<p>Organoids are organ-like balls of cells that are grown in the lab from spheroids (even smaller balls) of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human cells<\/a> and mimic the properties of the organ from which the \u201cseed\u201d cell was taken. Organoids are used for studying organ function in a lab setting and are also promising tools in the field of regenerative medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing miniature organ-like tissues in the lab is already within our reach. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new approach that enables intestinal mini-organs to be grown more easily and efficiently in the lab. This holds immense promise for regenerative medicine. In a study published in November in Cell Reports Methods, researchers from Tokyo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}