The pancreas is a vital but often overlooked organ that plays a key role in digestion and blood sugar regulation. It produces essential enzymes that break down food and hormones like insulin and ...

Microscopic image with a star-shaped lumen on the left and a spherical lumen on the right. The apical marker Ezrin shown in green marks the lumen surface. Tissue engineering the pancreas: Working with ...

Researchers have developed a new organoid that mimics the human fetal pancreas, offering a clearer view of its early development. The researchers were able to recreate a complete structure that ...

Hans Clevers, PhD, has been working on organoids from the beginning. He was group leader for twenty years at the Hubrecht Institute and has been head of pharma research and early development (pRED) of ...

An organoid containing all three pancreatic cell lineages has been developed for the first time, providing a clearer picture of how the pancreas develops. Organoids can help us better understand ...

Microscopic image of the pancreas organoid. The magenta shows the cell nuclei, and the cyan highlights the acinar cells that secrete digestive enzymes. Researchers from the Organoid group (previously ...