4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Organoids may enable disease research, including research on neurodegenerative diseases, when the relevant tissue is difficult to obtain.

Fabian Theis · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026

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“There's a whole bunch of cancer systems, but you know, also for, let's say, if you wanna study diseases with hard to acquire material, let's say you wanna look into the genetics of some type of, of neurodegenerative diseases or so.”
“Like typically it's very hard to get access to tissue, right? So you take stem cells from the sk-- you take cells from the skin, differentiate them, make-- turn them into these mid little brains, and then you can potentially study some, some things there.”
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