Organoids emerge as powerful tools for disease modeling and drug discovery
Broad scientists are using brain, kidney, and tumor organoids to gain new insights into disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.

Credit: Silvia Velasco, Paola Arlotta laboratory, Harvard University and Broad Institute
A brain organoid derived from a human induced pluripotent stem cell line and grown in culture for 180 days shows a high level of cell-type diversity, including radial glial cells (magenta) and astrocytes (green and red). Cell nuclei are labelled in blue.