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• Engineering organoids to recapitulate brain tissue
  The ability to derive and manipulate pluripotent stem cells has opened up new avenues for modeling biological systems in both healthy and diseased conditions. In order to more fully recapitulate the tissue microenvironment with its cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix, and cell-niche interactions, it is essential to transition stem-cell culturing from monolayers to 3D structures. Self-organization of...

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• Press Release Blurring the Line Between Science, Art, and Design
  May 10, 2019
• Research Spotlights Fewer steps in the lab, one more leap for organs-on-chips
  October 29, 2018
• Awards Wyss Institute Receives Grant from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  October 17, 2018

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  Origami Organs
  A multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and architectural designers are developing Origami Organs that could function like artificial kidneys. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  This is Your Brain on Chips
  How do you study something as complex as the human brain? Take it apart. Wyss researchers have created Organ Chips that mimic the blood-brain barrier and the brain and, by linking them together, discovered how our blood vessels and our neurons influence each other. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Bioprinting: The Kidney’s Proximal Tubules
  In this video, see how the Wyss Institute team has advanced bioprinting to the point of being able to fabricate a functional subunit of a kidney. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University