Organoid News Volume 3.41 | Oct 20 2022

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    Vol. 3.41 – 20 October, 2022
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    En Masse Organoid Phenotyping Informs Metabolic-Associated Genetic Susceptibility to NASH

    Scientists devised a pooled human organoid-panel of steatohepatitis to investigate the impact of metabolic status on genotype-phenotype association.
    [Cell]

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    Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Salivary Gland Organoids Model SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Replication

    The authors showed that human induced salivary glands generated from hiPSCs can be infected with SARS-CoV-2.
    [Nature Cell Biology]

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    HBEGF-TNF Induce a Complex Outer Retinal Pathology with Photoreceptor Cell Extrusion in Human Organoids

    Researchers established a human retinal organoid system reproducing several parameters of the human retina, including some within the macula, to model a complex combination of photoreceptor and glial pathologies.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Non-Enzymatic Role of SOD1 in Intestinal Stem Cell Growth

    Investigators established intestinal organoids from tamoxifen-inducible intestinal epithelial cell-specific superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) knockout mice to explore the regulation of intestinal homeostasis.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    Molecular Pathology of Usher 1B Patient-Derived Retinal Organoids at Single Cell Resolution

    The authors analyzed 3D retinal organoids generated from Usher type 1B retinitis pigmentosa patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Generation of Mitochondria-Rich Kidney Organoids from Expandable Intermediate Mesoderm Progenitors Reprogramed from Human Urine Cells under Defined Medium

    Researchers reprogramed mitochondria-rich human urine cells into expandable intermediate mesoderm progenitor like cells, which in turn generated nephron progenitors and formed kidney organoids in both 2D and 3D cultures.
    [Cell & Bioscience]

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    Generation and Maturation of Human iPSC-Derived 3D Organotypic Cardiac Microtissues in Long-Term Culture

    Investigators established a scaffold-free protocol to generate multicellular, beating human cardiac microtissues in vitro from hiPSCs, namely human organotypic cardiac microtissues.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Mice 3D Testicular Organoid System as a Novel Tool to Study Zika Virus Pathogenesis

    Scientists constructed a 3D testicular organoid model using primary testicular cells from adult BALB/C mice.The organoid system had a blood-testis barrier-like structure and could synthesize testosterone.
    [Virologica Sinica]

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    Generation of Murine Tumor-Reactive T Cells by Co-Culturing Murine Pancreatic Cancer Organoids and Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes

    A pancreatic cancer organoid culture from a genetically engineered pancreatic cancer murine model was established and co-cultured with autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes to induce a tumor-specific T cell response to pancreatic cancer.
    [Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports]

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    Human Cerebral Organoids — A New Tool for Clinical Neurology Research

    Investigators summarize how such organoid models can complement classical approaches to accelerate neurological research.
    [Nature Reviews Neurology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Hansjörg Wyss Gives Fourth Transformational Gift to Support Harvard’s Wyss Institute and its Mission to Positively Impact the World through Disruptive Innovation

    Harvard University announced the latest gift of $350 million from Hansjörg Wyss, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, to support the continued mission of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
    [Wyss Institute]

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