Growing Organs in the Lab

From Stem Cell to Personalized Medicine

In many cancer patients resistance of the tumor or side effects of the administered drug cause treatment failure. Imagine you could predict both tumor resistance and potential side effects for each patient by using a living replica of the sick organ in the laboratory. Growing miniature organs from a patient’s own cells sounds like something from a science-fiction movie? Then welcome to the movie because this is actually being developed by researchers right now!

The Hans Clevers research group in the Hubrecht Institute invites you to learn more about how a mini-intestine, mini-liver and mini-pancreas can be grown from a single cell. As part of this we will explore how certain genes regulate the development of stem cells and look at the composition of these mini-organs with fluorescence microscopy.

Follow the researchers for one day and learn about this new technology, its potential clinical use but also about the multifaceted life of what it takes to be a stem cell researcher. During part of the day we will visit the labs of the Hubrecht Institute, to show you how and where this fascinating research takes place.

Deze masterclass is voor 5 of 6 vwo’ers met biologie.

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