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Arbor Mastered

Assembling and growing in the lab the different cell types that make up a particular body tissue – cultures known as organoids – emulates physiology in many ways sufficiently to study cell and molecular interactions for example, but there's more to life. Here, using a defined chemical protocol, lung organoids have been coaxed to branch, mimicking the tree-like pattern seen in our lungs, upgrading to a more life-like means to study development and regeneration

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Mengjie Pan, Baomei Cai, Guanlie Li, Ruifang Zhang, Chuncao Deng, Huan Chen and colleagues

Guangzhou National Laboratory, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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Published in Developmental Cell, June 2026