An eye on organoids: organoids and their use in retinal degeneration

Written by Tahani Baakdhah

Tahani Baakdhah provides an overview of organoids and gives us an insight into her own work on bioreactors for retinal organoids. A new era of personalized medicine is on the horizon thanks to modern technology, which allows scientists to use patients’ stem cells to make different three-dimensional (3D) mini organs called ‘organoids’. Inside these organoids, cells assume organization similar to that found in the original organ they represent. This self-organization is the result of a multitude of instructive cues originating from the extracellular matrix and the surrounding culture media, as well as signals from other cell types within the organoid...

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