Organoids

3D printing technology is set to revolutionise medicine from prosthetics and tissue engineering, to customised medicines that are manufactured on demand

Miniature immature organs in dishes, known as organoids, may hold the key to major breakthroughs in treatments for epilepsy and autism, as well as a range of other diseases

Researchers are growing miniature immature organs in dishes, meaning they can investigate a range of developmental disorders like epilepsy, autism and Alzheimer’s outside the human body