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Adam Walton explores a new state-of-the-art life sciences facility in Cardiff that manufactures organoids.

Organoids are biological tissue cultures grown from human stem cells that closely resemble human organs. This new facility will create high volumes of these organoids, ready for researchers to use in their work. By expanding organoid availability, it is hoped that the time and cost it takes to bring new life-saving therapies to the market will be greatly reduced.

We hear from Dr Victoria Marsh-Durban, who leads the new Cardiff site.

Dr Mary Duseau tells us about the US company supporting the project and describes their close links to the city of Cardiff.

One of the original scientists who helped to develop organoid technology at scale, Dr Robert Vries, tells us how organoids got their name.

Plus, we talk to Nobel Laureate, Professor Sir Martin Evans, one of the first scientists to identify embryonic stem cells in mice back in the 1980s.

Produced by Stuart Russell.