 Thyroid organoids have been created from human tissue. This innovative approach may one day lead to thyroid replacement. Researchers have developed organoids to replace thyroid function which could help treat hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is one of the most common afflictions around the world and it increases with age. The current treatment doesn't work fully in 5-10% of sufferers. The current pharmaceutical approach to hypothyroidism is to simply replace at least one of the hormones that the thyroid produces. However, the researchers of this study have created small artificial organs known as organoids that live within tissue and create such hormones themselves. The researchers created organoids from human and mouse cells. If the researchers approach can go through the development and human clinical trial process, the resulting therapy could potentially function exactly as a human thyroid does, thus removing the need for pharmaceutical created hormones. See the full video at youtube.com.