[HTML][HTML] Human stem cell models of neurodegeneration: From basic science of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to clinical translation

E Giacomelli, BF Vahsen, EL Calder, Y Xu, J Scaber… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by progressive cell loss leading to disruption
of the structure and function of the central nervous system. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

[HTML][HTML] Studying human neurological disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells: from 2D monolayer to 3D organoid and blood brain barrier models

S Logan, T Arzua, SG Canfield… - Comprehensive …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neurological disorders have emerged as a predominant healthcare concern in recent years
due to their severe consequences on quality of life and prevalence throughout the world …

Artificial extracellular matrix scaffolds of mobile molecules enhance maturation of human stem cell-derived neurons

Z Álvarez, JA Ortega, K Sato, IR Sasselli… - Cell stem cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technologies offer a unique resource for
modeling neurological diseases. However, iPSC models are fraught with technical …

Homozygous might be hemizygous: CRISPR/Cas9 editing in iPSCs results in detrimental on-target defects that escape standard quality controls

D Simkin, V Papakis, BI Bustos, CM Ambrosi, SJ Ryan… - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
The ability to precisely edit the genome of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines
using CRISPR/Cas9 has enabled the development of cellular models that can address …

Electrophysiological analysis of brain organoids: current approaches and advancements

AP Passaro, SL Stice - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Brain organoids, or cerebral organoids, have become widely used to study the human brain
in vitro. As pluripotent stem cell-derived structures capable of self-organization and …

A far-red hybrid voltage indicator enabled by bioorthogonal engineering of rhodopsin on live neurons

S Liu, C Lin, Y Xu, H Luo, L Peng, X Zeng, H Zheng… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Membrane potential is a key aspect of cellular signalling and is dynamically regulated by an
array of ion-selective pumps and channels. Fluorescent voltage indicators enable non …

Pooled genetic screens with image‐based profiling

RT Walton, A Singh, PC Blainey - Molecular Systems Biology, 2022 - embopress.org
Spatial structure in biology, spanning molecular, organellular, cellular, tissue, and
organismal scales, is encoded through a combination of genetic and epigenetic factors in …

Advances in the automation of whole-cell patch clamp technology

HJ Suk, ES Boyden, I van Welie - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2019 - Elsevier
Electrophysiology is the study of neural activity in the form of local field potentials, current
flow through ion channels, calcium spikes, back propagating action potentials and somatic …

Genome editing in iPSC-based neural systems: from disease models to future therapeutic strategies

A McTague, G Rossignoli, A Ferrini, S Barral… - Frontiers in Genome …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Therapeutic advances for neurological disorders are challenging due to limited accessibility
of the human central nervous system and incomplete understanding of disease …

'Channeling'therapeutic discovery for epileptic encephalopathy through iPSC technologies

D Simkin, C Ambrosi, KA Marshall, LA Williams… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and gene editing technologies have revolutionized the
field of in vitro disease modeling, granting us access to disease-pertinent human cells of the …