"Amniotic Fluid-Derived Organoids: A Breakthrough in Prenatal Medicine"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Nature.com
Researchers have successfully grown organoids from cells found in amniotic fluid collected from ongoing pregnancies, offering a potential new way to study and understand congenital diseases that develop in the fetus during pregnancy. The organoids, which mimic tissue, were grown from lung, kidney, and small intestine cells and could provide insights into how congenital conditions progress and potentially personalize treatment for individual fetuses in the future. This method could offer a simpler and faster alternative to growing organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells, but further research is needed to determine their usefulness for modeling diseases and drug testing.