Recapitulating the complexity of human organs in vitro would accelerate drug discovery and enable personalized treatments. By combining different types of liver cell from donor tissues, in vitro models of a liver region that mirror some of the organ’s main structures and functions can be assembled, getting closer to reproducing mini livers in vitro. ‘Assembloids’ consisting of various liver-cell types mimic several structural and functional features of the organ.
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