The results of a joint research project by Ms. KADOTANI Ayaka, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, TUAT, Associate Professor YOSHINO Daisuke (her supervisor), and HAYASE Gen, a senior researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), were released in a press release by TUAT.

This research group has conceived a new construction concept (Unit construction method) inspired by building toys such as blocks and building blocks, with the aim of creating transplantable full-size kidney organoids (three-dimensional cell aggregates artificially created to mimic the kidney).
Based on this concept, they have established a method for creating the basic elements (units) of organoids that mimic the glomeruli that perform kidney functions, and showed that it is possible to reproduce complex organ structures by combining these units.
This achievement is expected to contribute to the development of full-scale human kidney organoids.

For details, please refer to the following press release from TUAT.

■ TUAT Press Release:(only in Japanese)
https://www.tuat.ac.jp/outline/disclosure/pressrelease/2024/20241128_02.html