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 …

Synthetic alternatives to Matrigel

EA Aisenbrey, WL Murphy - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Matrigel, a basement-membrane matrix extracted from Engelbreth–Holm–Swarm mouse
sarcomas, has been used for more than four decades for a myriad of cell-culture …

Microfluidic device with brain extracellular matrix promotes structural and functional maturation of human brain organoids

AN Cho, Y Jin, Y An, J Kim, YS Choi, JS Lee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Brain organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells provide a highly valuable in vitro
model to recapitulate human brain development and neurological diseases. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

[HTML][HTML] A transcription factor atlas of directed differentiation

J Joung, S Ma, T Tay, KR Geiger-Schuller… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene programs, thereby controlling diverse cellular
processes and cell states. To comprehensively understand TFs and the programs they …

Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex

A Uzquiano, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni, B Paulsen… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Realizing the full utility of brain organoids to study human development requires
understanding whether organoids precisely replicate endogenous cellular and molecular …

Construction of a human cell landscape at single-cell level

X Han, Z Zhou, L Fei, H Sun, R Wang, Y Chen, H Chen… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell analysis is a valuable tool for dissecting cellular heterogeneity in complex
systems. However, a comprehensive single-cell atlas has not been achieved for humans …

Lineage recording in human cerebral organoids

Z He, A Maynard, A Jain, T Gerber, R Petri, HC Lin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived organoids provide models to study human
organ development. Single-cell transcriptomics enable highly resolved descriptions of cell …

Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions

A Gordon, SJ Yoon, SS Tran, CD Makinson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human stem-cell-derived models provide the promise of accelerating our understanding of
brain disorders, but not knowing whether they possess the ability to mature beyond mid-to …

Molecular architecture of the developing mouse brain

G La Manno, K Siletti, A Furlan, D Gyllborg, E Vinsland… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian brain develops through a complex interplay of spatial cues generated by
diffusible morphogens, cell–cell interactions and intrinsic genetic programs that result in …