COLORFUL COLONOIDS: Organoids grown from a mouse’s colon will be used to screen drugs for colorectal cancer.
Posted: February 13, 2019
Posted: February 13, 2019
Viola Lobert
NEW GROWTH: Injecting a hydrogel that mechanically resembles a blood clot promotes the growth of new blood vessels in mice.
Posted: April 12, 2019
Posted: April 12, 2019
Ag Shastri
DYSTROPHIN RESTORED: Human heart muscle cells with Duchenne muscle dystrophy (left) can be edited by CRISPR to produce the protein dystrophin (in red, right).
Posted: May 15, 2018
Posted: May 15, 2018
UT Southwestern
NEON TISSUE: This organoid, developed from mouse adipose tissue, has green-stained actin filaments, blue nuclei, and green endoplasmic reticulum.
Posted: May 31, 2019
Posted: May 31, 2019
Christian Lamberz
TINY TARGETS: A micro-alginate bead containing a colony of antibiotic-producing cells (red) has fewer bacteria (green) than surrounding beads, suggesting the antibiotic is working in that bead.
Posted: April 10, 2019
Posted: April 10, 2019
Steven Schmitt/EHT Zürich
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