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Following this, they analyzed the monkeys' hearts at the tissue level to assess whether cardiac spheroids could regenerate the damaged heart muscles.

These spheroids can then be arranged in any geometry, and the cells of the different units combine seamlessly to form a uniform, living tissue.

Researchers have now shown that this is possible in mice by transplanting small 3D cell cultures of liver cells, known as spheroids, into the anterior chamber of the eye.

"We were very surprised that they turned out to be oblate spheroids, pretty similar to Smarties."

Organoids are microtissue spheroids that are grown from stem cells and have a similar structure to real organs -- in other words, they are a sort of miniature organ.