Electrical Orchestration
How hollow organoids – lab-grown 3D tissue models – can be shaped and inflated by external electrical stimulation highlights the role of life's natural bioelectrical systems (as in water regulation) and has potential for applications in fields such as bioengineering and developmental biology
Read the published research article here
Image from work by Gawoon Shim and Isaac B. Breinyn, and colleagues
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Nature Communications, April 2024
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