It's #FluorescenceFriday!

This week we look at the blood vessels in the brain of a 2-day-old #zebrafish using a state-of-the-art microscope. These data help scientists to understand how blood vessels form and develop.

#microscopy #bloodVessels #science

How to feed mini-organs

Organoids, lab-grown mini-organs, hold the promise for better understanding of human biology. But these microscopic organ-like blobs of cells fall short of real organs in a lot of ways. For one, their size is limited to less than half of a millimeter in diameter — any larger and their internal cells start dying because nutrients from the liquid they’re grown in can’t diffuse past a certain distance. Scientists are now making lab-grown mini-organs more lifelike by adding blood vessels.

#Biomedicine #Biotechnology #Organoids #BloodVessels #BrainOrganoids #Neuroscience #Neurology

https://alleninstitute.org/news/scishots-how-to-feed-mini-organs/

Challenge #26: Understanding the role of damaged #BloodVessels as a cause of various #diseases.

We are researching the #HumanOrganism in order to decipher these relationships.

More: https://www.helmholtz.de/en/research/helmholtz-challenges/challenge/understanding-the-role-of-damaged-blood-vessels-as-a-cause-of-various-diseases/ #InspiredByChallenges #mdcBerlin
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