Tech Times featured work by Christian Naus, the Canada Research Chair in Gap Junctions and Neurological Disorders at UBC.
Naus and his team worked with a bioprinting company, taking a cue from a Japanese flower-arranging technique, and fixed small spheres of neural stem cells to the microneedles on the plate.
He said that organoids, a mass of millions of brain cells that represent the basic model of the brain, help in studying tumors in the “context” of a human brain and not simply on a dish in the laboratory.