Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

RNA-binding proteins in human genetic disease

F Gebauer, T Schwarzl, J Valcárcel… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are critical effectors of gene expression, and as such their
malfunction underlies the origin of many diseases. RBPs can recognize hundreds of …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

Functions and diseases of the retinal pigment epithelium

S Yang, J Zhou, D Li - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The retinal pigment epithelium is a fundamental component of the retina that plays essential
roles in visual functions. Damage to the structure and function of the retinal pigment …

The nexus between RNA-binding proteins and their effectors

S He, E Valkov, S Cheloufi, J Murn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) regulate essentially every event in the lifetime of an RNA
molecule, from its production to its destruction. Whereas much has been learned about RNA …

Retinal organoids: a window into human retinal development

M O'Hara-Wright, A Gonzalez-Cordero - Development, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Retinal development and maturation are orchestrated by a series of interacting signalling
networks that drive the morphogenetic transformation of the anterior developing brain …

Pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal organoids for disease modeling and development of therapies

K Kruczek, A Swaroop - Stem Cells, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Retinal diseases constitute a genetically and phenotypically diverse group of clinical
conditions leading to vision impairment or blindness with limited treatment options …

A look into retinal organoids: methods, analytical techniques, and applications

TAV Afanasyeva, JC Corral-Serrano, A Garanto… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) cause progressive loss of light-sensitive photoreceptors in
the eye and can lead to blindness. Gene-based therapies for IRDs have shown remarkable …

[HTML][HTML] Primary cilia biogenesis and associated retinal ciliopathies

HY Chen, RA Kelley, T Li, A Swaroop - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The primary cilium is a ubiquitous microtubule-based organelle that senses external
environment and modulates diverse signaling pathways in different cell types and tissues …

LRRK2 is recruited to phagosomes and co-recruits RAB8 and RAB10 in human pluripotent stem cell-derived macrophages

H Lee, R Flynn, I Sharma, E Haberman, PJ Carling… - Stem Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
The Parkinson's disease-associated gene, LRRK2, is also associated with immune
disorders and infectious disease and is expressed in immune subsets. Here, we …