Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

Microglia-containing human brain organoids for the study of brain development and pathology

W Zhang, J Jiang, Z Xu, H Yan, B Tang, C Liu… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system, playing critical roles in
brain development and homeostasis. Increasing evidence has implicated microglia …

Exposure of iPSC-derived human microglia to brain substrates enables the generation and manipulation of diverse transcriptional states in vitro

MJ Dolan, M Therrien, S Jereb, T Kamath… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia, the macrophages of the brain parenchyma, are key players in neurodegenerative
diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. These cells adopt distinct transcriptional subtypes …

Generation of vascularized brain organoids to study neurovascular interactions

XY Sun, XC Ju, Y Li, PM Zeng, J Wu, YY Zhou… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Brain organoids have been used to recapitulate the processes of brain development and
related diseases. However, the lack of vasculatures, which regulate neurogenesis and brain …

[HTML][HTML] An in vivo neuroimmune organoid model to study human microglia phenotypes

ST Schafer, AAF Mansour, JCM Schlachetzki, M Pena… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Microglia are specialized brain-resident macrophages that play crucial roles in brain
development, homeostasis, and disease. However, until now, the ability to model …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid accumulation induced by APOE4 impairs microglial surveillance of neuronal-network activity

MB Victor, N Leary, X Luna, HS Meharena… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is the greatest known genetic risk factor for
developing sporadic Alzheimer's disease. How the interaction of APOE4 microglia with …

iPS-cell-derived microglia promote brain organoid maturation via cholesterol transfer

DS Park, T Kozaki, SK Tiwari, M Moreira… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia are specialized brain-resident macrophages that arise from primitive macrophages
colonizing the embryonic brain. Microglia contribute to multiple aspects of brain …

Expression of the transcription factor PU. 1 induces the generation of microglia-like cells in human cortical organoids

B Cakir, Y Tanaka, FR Kiral, Y Xiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia play a role in the emergence and preservation of a healthy brain
microenvironment. Dysfunction of microglia has been associated with neurodevelopmental …

Unsupervised removal of systematic background noise from droplet-based single-cell experiments using CellBender

SJ Fleming, MD Chaffin, A Arduini, AD Akkad… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Droplet-based single-cell assays, including single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq),
single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and cellular indexing of transcriptomes and …

Microglia-like cells promote neuronal functions in cerebral organoids

I Fagerlund, A Dougalis, A Shakirzyanova… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human cerebral organoids, derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, offer a unique in
vitro research window to the development of the cerebral cortex. However, a key player in …