assembloids

But today, researchers routinely fuse organoids representing distinct brain areas to create unified ‘assembloids’, capable of reconstructing functional neural networks and offering insights into brain connectivity, development and disease.

Brain tissues, assemble! Inside the push to build better brain models Elie Dolgin 2025

He first learnt how to create various regional organoids during his postdoctoral studies at Stanford University in California — but then had the idea of putting them together into constructions called assembloids.

Mini models of the human brain are revealing how this complex organ takes shape Alison Abbott 2026