Organoids are not organs: sources of variation and misinformation in organoid biology

KB Jensen, MH Little - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
In the past decade, the term organoid has moved from obscurity to common use to describe
a 3D in vitro cellular model of a tissue that recapitulates structural and functional elements of …

Human assembloids

S Kanton, SP Paşca - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Deconstructing and then reconstructing developmental processes ex vivo is crucial to
understanding how organs assemble and how physiology can be disrupted in disease …

[HTML][HTML] Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish

L Smirnova, BS Caffo, DH Gracias, Q Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Biological computing (or biocomputing) offers potential advantages over silicon-based
computing in terms of faster decision-making, continuous learning during tasks, and greater …

Assembloid CRISPR screens reveal impact of disease genes in human neurodevelopment

X Meng, D Yao, K Imaizumi, X Chen, KW Kelley, N Reis… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The assembly of cortical circuits involves the generation and migration of interneurons from
the ventral to the dorsal forebrain,–, which has been challenging to study at inaccessible …

Spatially controlled construction of assembloids using bioprinting

JG Roth, LG Brunel, MS Huang, Y Liu, B Cai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The biofabrication of three-dimensional (3D) tissues that recapitulate organ-specific
architecture and function would benefit from temporal and spatial control of cell-cell …

Modeling Parkinson's disease pathology in human dopaminergic neurons by sequential exposure to α-synuclein fibrils and proinflammatory cytokines

A Bayati, R Ayoubi, A Aguila, CE Zorca, G Deyab… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Lewy bodies (LBs), α-synuclein-enriched intracellular inclusions, are a hallmark of
Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology, yet a cellular model for LB formation remains elusive …

Generation of ventralized human thalamic organoids with thalamic reticular nucleus

FR Kiral, B Cakir, Y Tanaka, J Kim, WS Yang, F Wehbe… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human brain organoids provide unique platforms for modeling several aspects of human
brain development and pathology. However, current brain organoid systems mostly lack the …

Addressing global environmental challenges to mental health using population neuroscience: a review

G Schumann, OA Andreassen, T Banaschewski… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Climate change, pollution, urbanization, socioeconomic inequality, and
psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have caused massive changes in …

Organoids in gastrointestinal diseases: from experimental models to clinical translation

C Günther, B Winner, MF Neurath, TS Stappenbeck - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
We are entering an era of medicine where increasingly sophisticated data will be obtained
from patients to determine proper diagnosis, predict outcomes and direct therapies. We …

Advancing preclinical models of psychiatric disorders with human brain organoid cultures

TA Dixon, AR Muotri - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are often distinguished from neurological disorders in that the former
do not have characteristic lesions or findings from cerebrospinal fluid …