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Organoids: the body builders

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Stem-cell-derived organoids offer increasingly sophisticated models for studying human development and disease, as well as powerful emerging tools for precision medicine.

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Eisenstein, M. Organoids: the body builders. Nat Methods 15, 19–22 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4538

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