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+Design offers more effective and intuitive ways to communicate our ideas with people regardless of professional background, by investigating the boundary principles of human creativity: science, engineering, art and design.

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Digital Organoid
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Digital Organoid

An organoid engineered with a micro RFID chip that emits wireless signals.

iScience | 2018
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Fatty Liver Organoid
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Fatty Liver Organoid

A bioengineered human liver model of inflammation and fibrosis. Yellow: lipid; brown: nuclei.

Cell Metab | 2019
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Vascularized Islet
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Vascularized Islet

Dense vascular networks formed inside a transplanted islet.

Cell Reports | 2018
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Multi-organ System
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Multi-organ System

Hepato-biliary-pancreatic-duodenal organoids grown from human stem cells.

Nature | 2019
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Enteral Ventilation via Anus
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Enteral Ventilation via Anus

Mammalian enteral ventilation.

Med | 2021
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Multicellular Organoid
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Multicellular Organoid

Organized hepatocyte and stellate cell lineages within organoids.

Cell Metab | 2019
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Membrane Fluidity Signature
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Membrane Fluidity Signature

Visualizing membrane fluidity in human stem cells.

Stem Cell Reports | 2018
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Organoids Beyond
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Organoids Beyond

Engineered multi-organs grown from human pluripotency.

Science | 2019
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Acrylic Craft
CRAFT

Acrylic Craft

A multi-organ, aquarium-like block.

Mascot “Organoid-san”
CRAFT

Mascot “Organoid-san”

Fatty and ugly-cute. Concept: Rie / Illustration: Asuka

Boundary Organoid Earrings
CRAFT

Boundary Organoid Earrings

Fatty and Healthy Liver Organoid Earrings
CRAFT

Fatty and Healthy Liver Organoid Earrings

Takebe Lab Logo
CRAFT

Takebe Lab Logo

Shaped as a piece of “The T” puzzle — diversity, connectivity and their combination.

CINEMA

Engineering Multi-organs

3D CG — Nature 2019 / Amana Hydroid
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CINEMA

Self-developing Blood Vessels in a Dish

Takebe Lab
CINEMA

TAKEBE LAB 2016

Miharu Matsunaga & Jiro Murayama
CINEMA

Street Medical School @YCU-CDC

Tokyo Designplex Institute
CINEMA

Rebuilding Nephrons in Mouse

Takebe Lab
CINEMA

Self-condensation into Miniature Liver

Ken Iwasawa production
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