The $340 million, 30,000-square-foot center will produce cells for therapeutic applications.

Using human stems cells and segments of rat intestines, scientists engineer bowels that are capable of absorbing nutrients.

Scientists grew organoids that mimic human fetal brains and infected them with the Zika virus to model its neurological effects.

Using human induced pluripotent stem cells, scientists grew liver organoids and studied gene expression patterns in individual cells to learn more about how these tissues develop.