{"id":169703,"date":"2023-08-15T03:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-organoid-revolution-from-a-breast-in-jello-to-a-synthetic-embryo"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:22:28","slug":"the-organoid-revolution-from-a-breast-in-jello-to-a-synthetic-embryo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-organoid-revolution-from-a-breast-in-jello-to-a-synthetic-embryo","title":{"rendered":"The organoid revolution: From a breast in Jello to a synthetic embryo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-organoid-revolution-from-a-breast-in-jello-to-a-synthetic-embryo2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first posted about Orgaanoids for the heart, beause I have a family member with heart problems, and I know how the innovation is a game changer. I like to think of myself as a futurist, and being ahead of most everyone. My post about Mastodon proves such\u2026oh wait someone else posted it and threads uses the same ActivityPub protocol that is Mastodon. I should get Him to repost it if I know Him \ud83d\ude44, while as if I thought it. Let us always embrace the future, and futurists. \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<p>For over a century, scientists have dreamed of growing human organs sans humans. This technology could put an end to the scarcity of organs for transplants. But that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. The capability to grow fully functional organs would revolutionize research. For example, scientists could observe mysterious biological processes, such as how human cells and organs develop a disease and respond (or fail to respond) to medication without involving human subjects.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As described in the aforementioned Nature paper, \u017bernicka-Goetz and her team mimicked the embryonic environment by mixing these three types of stem cells from mice. Amazingly, the stem cells self-organized into structures and progressed through the successive developmental stages until they had beating hearts and the foundations of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart [and] all the components that go on to make up the body,\u201d said \u017bernicka-Goetz. \u201cIt\u2019s just unbelievable that we\u2019ve got this far. This has been the dream of our community for years and major focus of our work for a decade and finally we\u2019ve done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the methods developed by \u017bernicka-Goetz\u2019s team are successful with human stem cells, scientists someday could use them to guide the development of synthetic organs for patients awaiting transplants. It also opens the door to studying how embryos develop during pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first posted about Orgaanoids for the heart, beause I have a family member with heart problems, and I know how the innovation is a game changer. I like to think of myself as a futurist, and being ahead of most everyone. My post about Mastodon proves such\u2026oh wait someone else posted it and threads [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169703","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}