Creativity that inspires,
built on our scientific discoveries.
+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.


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

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

Vascularized Islet
Dense vascular networks formed inside a transplanted islet.

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


Multicellular Organoid
Organized hepatocyte and stellate cell lineages within organoids.

Membrane Fluidity Signature
Visualizing membrane fluidity in human stem cells.

Organoids Beyond
Engineered multi-organs grown from human pluripotency.

Acrylic Craft
A multi-organ, aquarium-like block.

Mascot “Organoid-san”
Fatty and ugly-cute. Concept: Rie / Illustration: Asuka

Boundary Organoid Earrings

Fatty and Healthy Liver Organoid Earrings

Takebe Lab Logo
Shaped as a piece of “The T” puzzle — diversity, connectivity and their combination.
Self-developing Blood Vessels in a Dish
TAKEBE LAB 2016
Street Medical School @YCU-CDC
Rebuilding Nephrons in Mouse
Self-condensation into Miniature Liver
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