Is it true that intestinal organoids can be used for personalized medicine for treating intestinal disease? Is this only in the research stage or have clinical trials been done?
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Intestinal crypts can be isolated from a patient, grown into organoids, and subjected to preclinical drug screening to determine the optimal treatment for that individual. Currently, The HUB Foundation for Organoid Technology is generating a library of human organoids, or “biobank”, derived from healthy and diseased tissue for the purposes of preclinical drug screening. Note that IntestiCult™ Organoid Growth Medium (Mouse) is for research use only, and for establishing mouse intestinal organoids.
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