The researchers use a technique called «optical metabolic imaging» to measure the activity
level of the organoids.
Not exact matches
«
Organoids offer an unprecedented
level of access into the inner workings
of the human brain,» Novitch says, noting that our brains are largely off - limits to poking and cutting into for research.
Now he and his team are putting cells from human brain tumors into the
organoids, which have reached the
level of development and complexity
of a 20 - week - old human fetus's, to see whether they reprise what happens in patients.
We use 3D stem cell («
organoid») cultures from mice and humans to examine occurrence,
level and molecular causes
of CIN in cancer (Video 2).
The new biomedical innovation course, which will take place at the laboratory's Maine campus, is geared to advanced graduate students, post-doctoral trainees and researchers at all
levels who want to learn the basics
of organoid culture and the most recent developments in the
organoid field.
Experiments on pancreas
organoids — models that are essentially balls
of cells sampled from the pancreas
of healthy people and pancreatic cancer patients — showed that lowering antioxidant
levels within cancerous pancreas cells, or cells on the way to becoming cancerous, kills them.