Organoids

Z Zhao, X Chen, AM Dowbaj, A Sljukic… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are simple tissue-engineered cell-based in vitro models that recapitulate many
aspects of the complex structure and function of the corresponding in vivo tissue. They can …

Notch signaling pathway: architecture, disease, and therapeutics

B Zhou, W Lin, Y Long, Y Yang, H Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The NOTCH gene was identified approximately 110 years ago. Classical studies have
revealed that NOTCH signaling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway. NOTCH receptors …

YAP/TAZ as master regulators in cancer: modulation, function and therapeutic approaches

S Piccolo, T Panciera, P Contessotto, M Cordenonsi - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the function of the transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ (YAP/TAZ)
in cancer is advancing. In this Review, we provide an update on recent progress in YAP/TAZ …

Tissue geometry drives deterministic organoid patterning

N Gjorevski, M Nikolaev, TE Brown, O Mitrofanova… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Stem cell–derived organoids are in vitro tissue and organ mimetics that
have enormous potential as models for human organ development and disease, as …

Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment

R Polak, ET Zhang, CJ Kuo - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
The development of neoplasia involves a complex and continuous interplay between
malignantly transformed cells and the tumour microenvironment (TME). Cancer …

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 …

Cell fate specification and differentiation in the adult mammalian intestine

J Beumer, H Clevers - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Intestinal stem cells at the bottom of crypts fuel the rapid renewal of the different cell types
that constitute a multitasking tissue. The intestinal epithelium facilitates selective uptake of …

Matrix viscoelasticity controls spatiotemporal tissue organization

A Elosegui-Artola, A Gupta, AJ Najibi, BR Seo… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Biomolecular and physical cues of the extracellular matrix environment regulate collective
cell dynamics and tissue patterning. Nonetheless, how the viscoelastic properties of the …

Synthetic dynamic hydrogels promote degradation-independent in vitro organogenesis

A Chrisnandy, D Blondel, S Rezakhani, N Broguiere… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Epithelial organoids are most efficiently grown from mouse-tumour-derived, reconstituted
extracellular matrix hydrogels, whose poorly defined composition, batch-to-batch variability …

Targeting the Hippo pathway in cancer, fibrosis, wound healing and regenerative medicine

A Dey, X Varelas, KL Guan - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved signalling pathway with key roles in
organ development, epithelial homeostasis, tissue regeneration, wound healing and …