by rss feed | Jan 9, 2024 | anthrobots, biobots, hype, News Feeds, organoids, xenobots
If you remember xenobots, mobile clusters of frog cells, now you might be interested to learn that some of the same team brings us human cell clusters called anthrobots. Both frog and human cellular clusters are considered types of biobots or robots made of cells. To...
by rss feed | Aug 2, 2022 | brain organoids, cerebral organoids, Educational, mini brains, News Feeds, organoids
Organoids including brain organoids are an exciting, relatively new area of research. This technology is having a powerful impact on biomedical science, which is the focus of today’s post. What’s in this post Definition of organoids | Brain organoids...
by rss feed | May 1, 2022 | Macchiarini, News Feeds, organoids
This has been one of those weeks where I spent some time thinking about taking risks in science. How much risk one should take? Risks can come in many forms. It could be at the core level at the bench doing specific experiments and not others. There’s risk in...
by rss feed | Mar 1, 2022 | Cell culture, Matrigel, News Feeds, organoids
Stem cell research relies on some unusual reagents at times including a cell culture product called Matrigel. One of the challenges with such reagents is that if they suddenly are back-ordered it could bring some research to a halt. Matrigel has been in short supply...
by rss feed | Dec 30, 2021 | COVID-19, Cryo-cell, News Feeds, organoids, Year in review
The past year was all over the place for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field. As you can see in my scoring of my 21 predictions for 2021, quite a few things were surprises in terms of what did and didn’t happen. Here’s an overview of the top...
by rss feed | Aug 17, 2021 | brain, brain organoids, News Feeds, organoids, Vision
Sometimes a paper really catches your eye like a new Cell Stem Cell pub reporting eye-like structures grown on brain organoids. The paper is Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles. Let’s take a quick look at this paper,...
