Bioprinted intestine

Voir Est Savoir 2020 - Vote 5 - Moritz Hofer and Tania Hübscher How can morphogenesis be recapitulated? The ability of stem cells to proliferate and differentiate allows self-organized organ-mimetics (organoids) to be grown in a dish. Yet, they are tiny and variable in shape. A tighter control can be achieved with engineering, which also opens up opportunities for organoid growth at physiologically relevant scales. Bioprinting was used to position intestinal stem cells, which grow to an organoid tube with