Scientists at Gladstone Institutes engineer a new type of organoid. (IMAGE)

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Scientists at Gladstone Institutes engineer a new type of organoid.

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Gladstone scientists discovered how to engineer a new kind of organoid—a three-dimensional, organ-like cluster of cells—in which gut and heart tissues grow together. Shown here is the study's first author, Ana Silva, a postdoctoral scholar in the McDevitt Lab.

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Photo: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes

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