Brain, muscle cells found lurking in kidney organoids grown in lab
Sunday, November 18, 2018 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
New research has identified rogue cells -- namely brain and muscle cells -- lurking within kidney organoids. Such cells make up only 10 to 20 percent of an organoid's cells, but their presence indicates that the 'recipes' used to coax stem cells into becoming kidney cells inadvertently are churning out other cell types.