Submitted by Justin Voog in the Bhatia Lab at the Koch Institute
"These images show liver cells (hepatocytes) grown in pre-patterned islands on a glass coverslip. The liver cells are stained in red and adjacent supportive cells (fibroblasts) are stained in green. A major goal of my research is towards generating a renewable and expandable source of human hepatocytes grown in culture. A renewable source of human hepatocytes would greatly aid efforts towards in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, personalized medicine, and drug screening."
Keywords: 2016, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, epi-fluorescence microscopy, tissue engineering, liver cells, MIT
Collection: Image Awards 2016