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Primary Care is in Crisis. Here’s Why.
Heart disease is sadly ubiquitous — roughly 2.6 million Canadians over 20 have been diagnosed with heart disease and by the time you finish reading this post, one of these Canadians has passed away.
Fortunately, recent advances in biomedical research have made studying and finding treatments for heart disease infinitely easier than before. So join me as we enter the fascinating world of organoids — a fairly new model being used to study heart disease.
To start, let’s tackle what organoids are. Put simply, they’re 3D structures that model human organs in a lab. They’re also grown from stem cells; stem cells are unspecialized cell types that haven’t become a specific cell type yet. There are different types of stem cells, with the two most widely talked about being pluripotent and adult stem cells.
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