{"id":98242,"date":"2025-10-02T03:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98242\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:03:13","slug":"breakthrough-in-lab-grown-mini-organs-shows-promise-for-disease-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98242\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in lab-grown mini-organs shows promise for disease study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scientists at the University of North Texas in the United States report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown replicas of human organs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These replicas, called organoids, can mimic some functions and structures of real organs, but a key limitation in the past has been the lack of blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The University of North Texas team, working with Stanford University in California, managed to grow mini hearts that have their own blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Using the same strategy, the researchers also created vascularised mini-livers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The study, published in the journal Science in June, suggests a path towards more realistic organ models for studying disease and testing clinical therapies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This research could also one day help tackle barriers faced in generating full organs outside the body, said Giuseppe Pettinato, director of the stem cell and organoid research lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, who was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists at the University of North Texas in the United States report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[62787,62786,62791,64,18,2421,62784,19,17,62788,62790,62789,15224,18862,133,32977,878,2634,62785],"class_list":{"0":"post-98242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-adam-yang","9":"tag-beth-israel-deaconess-medical-center","10":"tag-beth-israel-deaconess-medical-centre","11":"tag-covid-19","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fudan-university","14":"tag-human-organ-replicas","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-mini-hearts","18":"tag-mini-livers","19":"tag-mini-organs","20":"tag-organoids","21":"tag-parkinsons-disease","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-science-journal","24":"tag-scmp-lifestyle","25":"tag-stanford-university","26":"tag-university-of-north-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}