[HTML][HTML] A guide to the organ-on-a-chip

CM Leung, P De Haan… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature
tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. To better mimic human physiology, the chips are …

Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder

HR Willsey, AJ Willsey, B Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
More than a hundred genes have been identified that, when disrupted, impart large risk for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Current knowledge about the encoded proteins—although …

Brain organoid reservoir computing for artificial intelligence

H Cai, Z Ao, C Tian, Z Wu, H Liu, J Tchieu, M Gu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain-inspired computing hardware aims to emulate the structure and working principles of
the brain and could be used to address current limitations in artificial intelligence …

[HTML][HTML] Functional neuronal circuitry and oscillatory dynamics in human brain organoids

T Sharf, T Van Der Molen, SMK Glasauer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human brain organoids replicate much of the cellular diversity and developmental anatomy
of the human brain. However, the physiology of neuronal circuits within organoids remains …

Inherited retinal diseases: linking genes, disease-causing variants, and relevant therapeutic modalities

N Schneider, Y Sundaresan, P Gopalakrishnan… - Progress in retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a clinically complex and heterogenous group of visual
impairment phenotypes caused by pathogenic variants in at least 277 nuclear and …

Engineering human brain assembloids by microfluidics

Y Zhu, X Zhang, L Sun, Y Wang, Y Zhao - Advanced materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Brain assembloids offer a highly promising strategy to model human brain development and
disease, and advance potential studies in regenerative medicine, therapeutic screening …

Shell microelectrode arrays (MEAs) for brain organoids

Q Huang, B Tang, JC Romero, Y Yang, SK Elsayed… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Brain organoids are important models for mimicking some three-dimensional (3D)
cytoarchitectural and functional aspects of the brain. Multielectrode arrays (MEAs) that …

Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials

JG Roth, MS Huang, TL Li, VR Feig, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells have emerged as a promising in vitro model system for
studying the brain. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional cell culture paradigms have …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue morphology influences the temporal program of human brain organoid development

I Chiaradia, I Imaz-Rosshandler, BS Nilges… - Cell stem cell, 2023 - cell.com
Progression through fate decisions determines cellular composition and tissue architecture,
but how that same architecture may impact cell fate is less clear. We took advantage of …

[HTML][HTML] SOX transcription factors as important regulators of neuronal and glial differentiation during nervous system development and adult neurogenesis

M Stevanovic, D Drakulic, A Lazic… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The SOX proteins belong to the superfamily of transcription factors (TFs) that display
properties of both classical TFs and architectural components of chromatin. Since the …