Bigger Organoids & Organoid Lifespan
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Organoids and simpler spheroids are 3D structures on chip compared to 2D structures on chip. They retain their ability to self organize, perform plasticity, better retain intrinsic characteristics of micro-environments, cell to cell interactions, tissue polarity and nutrient gradients.
As organoids grow larger they become starved of nutrients due to a lack of vasculature and go necrotic at sites of starvation and so building a perfusion network through the organoid. Also junk, waste metabolites produced by the cell have to be cleared away.
The key to growing larger organoids is vasculuture, organoids with vasculuture has been achieved. These procedures are complex.
- Microfluidics: a micro-engineering of a vasculature for organoids, microscopic silicon tubing.
- Culturing a vasculature along the organoid.
- 3D tissue printing the organoid with vasculature and other essential additions. Bioprinting see Anthony Atala.
The vascular is bio-printed and then the organoid is cultured using the structure, naturally moving to nutrient rich areas.
The choice between a biological vasculature, angiogenesis and a micro-engineered, nanotechnology scaffold, lithography, microelectromechanical, microfluidic system is user defined.
Cryo-Technology
Storing large amounts of tissue in cryostate is essential to having on demand organoids. In two hundred days, the organoid supply could be infinitely fulfilled, leaving minimal time between organoid replacement. Labs are culuring their organoids and also utilizing them, requiring several months of development, growing time.
Lifepan
More precisely mimic the condition and functions of the human body to improve lifespan of organoids. This involves ongoing re-engineering of life-support systems.