Flower arranging inspires ‘artificial brains’ for cancer treatment

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.