Human pluripotent-stem-cell-derived organoids for drug discovery and evaluation

JJ Vandana, C Manrique, LA Lacko, S Chen - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and three-dimensional organoids have ushered in a
new era for disease modeling and drug discovery. Over the past decade, significant …

Engineered organoids for biomedical applications

NR de Barros, C Wang, S Maity, A Peirsman… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
As miniaturized and simplified stem cell-derived 3D organ-like structures, organoids are
rapidly emerging as powerful tools for biomedical applications. With their potential for …

Antifibrotic therapy in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: time for a human-centric approach

PN Brennan, AM Elsharkawy, TJ Kendall… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) might soon become the leading cause of end-stage
liver disease and indication for liver transplantation worldwide. Fibrosis severity is the only …

GSEApy: a comprehensive package for performing gene set enrichment analysis in Python

Z Fang, X Liu, G Peltz - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) is a commonly used algorithm for
characterizing gene expression changes. However, the currently available tools used to …

Organoids: The current status and biomedical applications

S Yang, H Hu, H Kung, R Zou, Y Dai, Y Hu… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organoids are three‐dimensional (3D) miniaturized versions of organs or tissues that are
derived from cells with stem potential and can self‐organize and differentiate into 3D cell …

Human liver cancer organoids: Biological applications, current challenges, and prospects in hepatoma therapy

L Chen, X Wei, D Gu, Y Xu, H Zhou - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Liver cancer and disease are among the most socially challenging global health concerns.
Although organ transplantation, surgical resection and anticancer drugs are the main …

Extracellular traps from activated vascular smooth muscle cells drive the progression of atherosclerosis

M Zhai, S Gong, P Luan, Y Shi, W Kou, Y Zeng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Extracellular DNA traps (ETs) represent an immune response by which cells release
essential materials like chromatin and granular proteins. Previous studies have …

Development of a high-throughput micropatterned agarose scaffold for consistent and reproducible hPSC-derived liver organoids

S Jiang, F Xu, M Jin, Z Wang, X Xu, Y Zhou… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Liver organoids represent emerging human-relevant in vitro liver models that have a wide
range of biomedical applications in basic medical studies and preclinical drug discovery …

Advanced 3D imaging and organoid bioprinting for biomedical research and therapeutic applications

S Maharjan, C Ma, B Singh, H Kang, G Orive… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Organoid cultures offer a valuable platform for studying organ-level biology, allowing for a
closer mimicry of human physiology compared to traditional two-dimensional cell culture …

Single‐cell transcriptomics stratifies organoid models of metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease

A Hess, SD Gentile, A Ben Saad, RU Rahman… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a growing cause of
morbidity with limited treatment options. Thus, accurate in vitro systems to test new therapies …