Human inner ear organoid with sensory hair cells (cyan), sensory neurons (yellow), and cell nuclei and synapses (magenta)INDIANA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

(See K.R. Koehler et al., “Generation of inner ear organoids containing functional hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells,” Nature Biotechnology, doi:10.1038/nbt.3840, 2017.)

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