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IMAGE: A bladder assembloid, a reconstituted organoid with three tissue layers of the human bladder.
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Credit: Kunyoo Shin (POSTECH)
Organoids are organ-like tissues derived from stem cells that are grown in labs, often referred to as miniature organs. Because they can imitate the structure and function of human organs, it is considered as the next-generation technology for creating artificial organs or developing new drugs. Recently, a research team in Korea introduced a new concept of mini-organs called assembloid that surpasses these organoids to structurally and functionally recapitulate human tissues. These findings were announced on December 17 (KST) in