Teams at the University of Pennsylvania/Harvard and Northwestern unveiled soft, ultra‑thin electronic interfaces that integrate with lab‑grown tissues to capture and modulate activity. UPenn/Harvard engineers embedded flexible conductive meshes into developing pancreatic tissue to deliver electrical stimulation that accelerates functional maturation of lab‑grown pancreatic cells. Separately, Northwestern researchers paired soft 3D electronic meshes with neural organoids to record long‑term electrophysiology at scale. Both platforms aim to overcome the immaturity of organoid models and the difficulty of stable, high‑resolution interfacing. Embedding electronics during development provides chronic stimulation and readouts that could improve disease modeling, drug screening and cell therapy maturation. These advances position bioelectronic integration as a pragmatic route to close the gap between in vitro models and functional human tissues.