Personalized Organoid Banks May Transform Rare Disease Care

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Organoid Farm

Bespoke drug testing is here. Scientists developed a faster way to create organoids for RNA treatment tests.

• Organoid = tiny tissue structures grown from patient cells

• Can predict drug effectiveness for specific patients

• New method saves up to ~1 year of growth time

Over 300 patients have been tested, focusing on RNA-based approaches for rare diseases. Treatments still have to undergo animal testing for safety, but further studies could reduce approval timelines. And maybe help me regrow a spleen!

Personalized organoid banks

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