Organoids to study ataxia telangiectasia

by IBEC - Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

3 months ago
ATM gene, taxia telangiectasia, Organoids

The idea of the project is to obtain cells with the patient mutations, develop organoids, explore the possibility of gene editing processes for different mutations and create a platform for drug testi...

Spain’s first farm animal organoid biobank will be set up at the IRTA to allow research into infectious diseases without the use of live animals

by IRTA

1 year ago
FARMBANK, Organoids

Organic tissues will be recreated in miniature from pigs, chickens and ruminants and used during the different experimental phases to identify treatments and vaccines

Scientists unravel the key to colon cancer relapse after chemotherapy

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

2 years ago
Mex3a protein, Colorectal Cancer, Organoids

Led by Dr. Eduard Batlle, ICREA researcher and head of the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, this study reveals that some tumour cells remain in a latent state and, after chemotherapy, th...

Organoids, generating human eyes for therapy

by DBGen Ocular Genomics

2 years ago
Organoids

Nowadays, most Hereditary Retinal Diseases lack effective treatment. One of the challenges in the development of new therapies is the difficulty to study the functional and physiological effects of th...