Organoid News Volume 3.01 | Jan 13 2022

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    Vol. 3.01 – 13 January, 2022
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    Tissue Geometry Drives Deterministic Organoid Patterning

    Scientists developed approaches for specifying the initial organoid geometry to build intestinal organoids of defined shape, size, and cell distributions, forming structures that were predictable, more similar to normal organs, and reproducible.
    [Science]

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    A Labroots 2021 Webinar: iPSCs As Models, Part 1: What Are Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and How Do You Use Them?, presented by Dr. Anjana Nityanandam, Director of the Human Stem Cell Lab core facility at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Click to Watch Now.
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    Stretchable Mesh Nanoelectronics for Three-Dimensional Single-Cell Chronic Electrophysiology from Developing Brain Organoids

    The authors reported a cyborg brain organoid platform, in which “tissue-like” stretchable mesh nanoelectronics are designed to match the mechanical properties of brain organoids and to be folded by the organogenetic process of progenitor or stem cells, distributing stretchable electrode arrays across the 3D organoids.
    [Advanced Materials]

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    The Ubiquitin-Dependent ATPase p97 Removes Cytotoxic Trapped PARP1 from Chromatin

    Using wild-type and a trapping-deficient poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP1) mutant combined with rapid immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry of endogenous proteins and Apex2 proximity labeling, investigators delineated mass spectrometry-based interactomes of trapped and non-trapped PARP1.
    [Nature Cell Biology]

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    Engineering Brain Assembloids to Interrogate Human Neural Circuits

    Investigators presented how to generate 3D spheroids resembling specific domains of the nervous system and then how to integrate them physically to allow axonal projections and synaptic assembly.
    [Nature Protocols]

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    Establishment of Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma Organoid for the Therapeutic Drug Testing

    Scientists reported gastric organoids established from tumor tissues comprising four signet ring cell carcinoma (SRCCs) and eight non-SRCCs.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    High-Throughput Formation and Image-Based Analysis of Basal-In Mammary Organoids in 384-Well Plates

    This analysis protocol utilized morphological image processing to identify cellular structures within each image and quantify their circularity and size. Using this script, time-lapse images of aggregating and non-aggregating culture conditions are analyzed to profile early changes in size and circularity.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Integrated Stem Cells from Apical Papilla in a 3D Culture System Improve Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Retinal Organoid Formation

    The authors assessed the effective interactions of mesenchymal stem cells and human embryonic stem cells during retinal organoid formation.
    [Life Sciences]

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    Evaluating Initial Integration of Cell-Based Chondrogenic Constructs in Human Osteochondral Explants

    Researchers examined whether integration of allogeneic cell-based implants with the surrounding native cartilage could be demonstrated in an ex vivo human osteochondral culture model.
    [Tissue Engineering Part C-Methods]

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    Controlling Morphology and Functions of Cardiac Organoids by Two-Dimensional Geometrical Templates

    Investigators developed a new method to generate 3D spatial-organized cardiac organoids from 2D micropatterned hiPSC colonies, instead of directly from 3D stem cell aggregates.
    [Cell Tissues Organs]

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    An ISSCR 2021 Innovation Showcase Webinar: Brain-Region-Specific Organoid Models, presented by Dr. Leon Chew. Click to Watch Now.
    REVIEWS

    When Stem Cells Meet COVID-19: Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Perspectives

    The authors discuss how stem cells play a role in the battle against COVID-19 and present a systematic review and prospective of the study on stem cell treatment and organoid models of COVID-19, which provides a reference for the effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    Engineering Organoids for In Vitro Modeling of Phenylketonuria

    Scientists gather what is known about the impact of phenylalanine in the brain of patients and highlight where hiPSC-derived organoids could contribute to the understanding of this disease.
    [Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Prellis Biologics Announces Collaboration and License Agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb

    Prellis Biologics, Inc. announced that it has entered into a multi-target drug discovery collaboration and licensing agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb utilizing Prellis Biologics’ first-in-class externalized human immune system based on human lymph node organoids.
    [Prellis Biologics, Inc. (Business Wire, Inc.)]

    Press Release

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Announces the Creation of the Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Presidential Innovation Fund

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announced the launch of the Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Presidential Innovation Fund, which is intended to lead to new, more effective ways to treat and cure cancer by rapidly seeding the most promising projects in translational cancer medicine that might otherwise go unfunded.
    [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]

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    FEATURED EVENT

    Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR

    February 2 – 6, 2022
    Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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    JOB OPPORTUNITIES

    Postdoctoral Fellow – iPSC Models of Neurodegenerative Disease

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Research Scientist – iPSC Technology and Regenerative Medicine

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – Los Angeles, California, United States

    Postdoctoral Fellowship – Ovarian Cancer

    Harvard Medical School – Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Master Student(s) – Organoid Research

    Austrian Academy of Sciences – Vienna, Austria

    Junior Group Leaders – Quantitative Biology and Medical Genomics

    Center for Genomic Regulation – Barcelona, Spain

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