The rise of the assembloid

3D models of biological tissue that incorporate multiple cell types are the latest tools for understanding human development and disease.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X You have full access to this article via your institution. Download PDF Sergiu Pașca is a physician-scientist at Stanford University in California. Credit: S. Pașca Lab, Stanford Univ. Ever since he was a medical student in Romania, Sergiu Pașca has wanted to understand how connections between cells go awry in the brains of people with psychiatric disorders. Because the living human brain is inaccessible, these conditions could be diagnosed and classified only according to their behavioural symptoms, rather than their underlying biological caus

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