Labanimal

The October episode of 3 Minute 3rs, brought to you by the NC3Rs (www.nc3rs.org.uk), the North American 3Rs Collaborative (www.na3rsc.org), and Lab Animal (www.nature.com/laban). Papers 1. Modelling human hepato-biliary-pancreatic organogenesis from the foregut–midgut boundary https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1598-0 2. Automated Platform for Long-Term Culture and High-Content Phenotyping of Single C. elegans Worms https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50920-8 3. Analysis of vertebrate vision in a 384-well imaging system. Thorn RJ. Sci Rep. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31562366 Transcript [LA] Organoids are three dimensional structures derived from human cells. Unlike traditional cell cultures that are grown flat on petri dishes, multicellular organoids can offer researchers a little extra physiological context. But, an organoid of one organ still exists in isolation. A new paper published last month in the journal Nature starts to put some organoids together. The team, led by Takanori