Peek behind the paper: bone healing from organoids

In this feature, we talk with Ioannis Papantoniou (KU Leuven) about his recent paper utilizating bone organoids to heal long bone defects. Please could you introduce yourself and your institution? My name is Ioannis Papantoniou, a chemical engineer by training that has been always fascinated by living systems. Since August, I have been a principal investigator at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences at the Foundation of Research & Technology(Hellas, Greece) and a visiting professor at Prometheus— the division of skeletal tissue engineering of KU Leuven (Belgium). You’ve just had a paper published in Advanced Science, can you tell us...