How to feed mini-organs

Organoids, lab-grown mini-organs, hold the promise for better understanding of human biology. But these microscopic organ-like blobs of cells fall short of real organs in a lot of ways. For one, their size is limited to less than half of a millimeter in diameter — any larger and their internal cells start dying because nutrients from the liquid they’re grown in can’t diffuse past a certain distance. Scientists are now making lab-grown mini-organs more lifelike by adding blood vessels.

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