Organoid News Volume 3.06 | Feb 17 2022

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    Volumetric Bioprinting of Organoids and Optically Tuned Hydrogels to Build Liver-Like Metabolic Biofactories

    Volumetric bioprinting via optical tomography shaped organoid-laden gelatin hydrogels into complex centimeter-scale 3D structures in under 20 seconds.
    [Advanced Materials]

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    The complex genettics of schizophrenia are unclear. So she developed a new approach.
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    Personalized Chordoma Organoids for Drug Discovery Studies

    In this proof-of-concept study, the authors successfully established organoids from seven chordoma tumor samples obtained from five patients presenting with tumors in different sites and stages of disease.
    [Science Advances]

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    IL-22 Initiates an IL-18-Dependent Epithelial Response Circuit to Enforce Intestinal Host Defence

    Scientists showed that IL-18 was a bona fide IL-22-regulated gate keeper for intestinal epithelial barrier.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Assessing GQ-GPCR–Induced Human Astrocyte Reactivity Using Bioengineered Neural Organoids

    Investigators devised a straightforward bioengineered neural organoid culture approach entailing transcription factor–driven direct differentiation of neurons and astrocytes from human PSC combined with genetically encoded tools for dual cell-selective activation.
    [Journal of Cell Biology]

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    Suspension Culture Promotes Serosal Mesothelial Development in Human Intestinal Organoids

    Researchers described suspension culture as a simple, low-maintenance method for culturing human intestinal organoids and for promoting in vitro differentiation of an organized serosal mesothelial layer that was similar to primary human intestinal serosal mesothelium based on single-cell RNA sequencing and histological analysis.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Inhibition of DCLK1 Sensitizes Resistant Lung Adenocarcinomas to EGFR-TKI through Suppression of Wnt/β-Catenin Activity and Cancer Stemness

    The authors investigated the role of the tumor stem cell marker DCLK1 in epithelial growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance of lung adenocarcinoma.
    [Cancer Letters]

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    The Human Nose Organoid Respiratory Virus Model: an Ex Vivo Human Challenge Model To Study Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Pathogenesis and Evaluate Therapeutics

    Scientists reported a noninvasive technique to generate human nose organoids as an alternative to biopsy-derived organoids.
    [mBio]

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    Retinal Organoids Derived from Rhesus Macaque iPSCs Undergo Accelerated Differentiation Compared to Human Stem Cells

    Retinal organoids produced from rhesus monkey iPSCs using established protocols differentiated through the stages of organoid development faster than those derived from human stem cells.
    [Cell Proliferation]

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    Cold Atmospheric Plasma Differentially Affects Cell Renewal and Differentiation of Stem Cells and APC-Deficient-Derived Tumor Cells in Intestinal Organoids

    Scientists addressed the relevance of 3D organoid technology to investigate the biological effects of cold atmospheric plasma on normal epithelial stem cells and tumor cells isolated from mouse small intestine.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    REVIEWS

    Electrophysiological Properties of Human Cortical Organoids: Current State of the Art and Future Directions

    Investigators review existing data on the electrophysiological properties of neurons in human cortical organoids, as well as recent advances in the complexity of cortical organoid modeling that have led to improvements in functional maturation at single neuron and neuronal network levels.
    [Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience]

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    Three-Dimensional Modelling of Ovarian Cancer: From Cell Lines to Organoids for Discovery and Personalized Medicine

    The authors discuss applications to address the currently unmet need of developing physiologically relevant in vitro and ex vivo models of ovarian cancer for fundamental discovery science and personalized medicine approaches.
    [Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Researcher Receives NSF CAREER Award for Investigations into the Function of Leader Cells

    Priscilla Hwang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the VCU College of Engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for 2022.
    [Viriginia Commonwealth University]

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    University Of Wisconsin–Madison – Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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    Francis Crick Institute – London, England, United Kingdom

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    IRB Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain

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    King’s College London- London, England, United Kingdom

    Postdoctoral Fellow – Neurogenomics Lab

    Harvard Medical School – Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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