Sometime in May 2021, IIT Madras announced the development, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of human brain tissues called ‘organoids’ with the help of a 3D-printed bioreactor.

       The aim of the project was to observe these tissues as they grow in vitro, and develop a technology to potentially accelerate therapeutic discoveries for diseases such as cancer and neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Explaining the technology, Ikram Khan SI, IIT Madras Alumnus and CEO of ISMO Bio-Photonics, an IIT Madras-incubated ...