Proud to se Giuseppe Calà on stage at London Stem Cell Network for his flash talk. Come to poster #2 if you want to know more about AFO!

Extremely grateful to Professor Paul Tam for hosting me at HKU Medicine this week, where I'm excited to present our work on Amniotic Fluid Organoids

#Afo Giuseppe Calà Paolo De Coppi UCL Div of Surgery UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Mini organs grown from unborn babies in bold medical breakthrough - BBC Science Focus Magazine ⁦Developmental Biology & Cancer⁩ ⁦Mattia FM Gerli, PhD⁩ ⁦Paolo De Coppi⁩ ⁦UCL Population Health Sciences⁩ ⁦Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children⁩ apple.news/AOppNW5rBThSYT…

Grateful to the Human Cell Atlas for including our work in their official publication list. This is such a honour!

Looking forward to see more amniotic fluid cells data to the atlas!

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Giuseppe Calà Max A Beesley Paolo De Coppi Loukogeorgakis Lab

Scientists identified and isolated viable 🧫 epithelial stem/progenitor cells.

Upon culturing, these cells formed clonal epithelial #organoids , manifesting small intestine, kidney tubule, and lung identity.

Nature Medicine | 👉 go.nature.com/3wHsxDG

Uno studio descrive lo sviluppo di organoidi da cellule del liquido amniotico, evidenziandone il potenziale per monitorare lo sviluppo del feto e supportare diagnostica e #medicina prenatale. Ce ne parlano gli autori Mattia FM Gerli, PhD e Paolo De Coppi
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News| Stem cells collected in late pregnancy herald advances in prenatal medicine

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#CitizensOfChange | UCL Population Health Sciences Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children UCL Nature Medicine Mattia FM Gerli, PhD Paolo De Coppi NIHR Research

Check out these fantastic new advances from Paolo De Coppi at GOSH, @UCLChildHealth and international partners, showing for the first time how we can understand development in late pregnancy and even predict health conditions before birth using stem cells👇 gosh.nhs.uk/news/stem-cell…

Scientists may have just discovered a new way to grow human organs 🧠❤️

Lecturer in Stem Cell Science at UCL Mattia FM Gerli, PhD authored the new study and joins Breakfast from 8.45am

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🗣️ “What we are aiming to get is a personalised medicine approach”

Mattia FM Gerli, PhD explains the ultimate aim behind their recent work, successfully growing 'mini organs' using human stem cells taken during pregnancy 🫄

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Organ-like groups of cells can be grown from amniotic fluid samples and offer hope for studying congenital conditions go.nature.com/48A1ibm

The generation of primary fetal #Organoids from epithelial stem cell populations, resembling their tissue of origin, offers the possibility of assessing later gestational stages, currently inaccessible beyond the limits of pregnancy termination nature.com/articles/s4159…

Amazing working with fetal medicine specialists Anna David UCLH Jan Deprest and Francesca Russo KU Leuven @uzleuven to define organoids from congenital diaphragmatic hernia CDH UK NIHR Research UCL Translational Research Office Mattia FM Gerli, PhD Developmental Biology & Cancer nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Congratulations to Max A Beesley, our first PhD graduate!

In just 3 years, Max drafted and annotated the first single cell atlas of the unperturbed human amniotic fluid.

As start up lab, we could not hope for a better recruit. Big papers and a bright future ahead!

I love the reactions when i answer to this classic icebreaker question at organoid conferences:

“Adult, iPS or cancer?”

“Primary fetal”

“Oh, wow! Wait, …how?!?”

World Organoid Research Day+ 2024 #AFO

Can’t wait to share with you our little trick to derive primary fetal organoids from continuing pregnancies, without the need for tissue samples or reprogramming.

Next stop: World Organoids Research Day

World Organoid Research Day+ 2024 #AFO

Merry Christmas and a Great 2024 from Surgery Developmental Biology & Cancer UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

Before we go on a break, we want to celebrate our latest workshop's success! 🎉 Had a great time at our workshop 'Current advances in organoid development and application', run with the support of our sponsors Qkine, Bio-Techne and AMSBIO!