Organoid News Volume 4.02 | Jan 19 2022

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    Organoid News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 4.02 – 19 January, 2023
    TOP STORY

    Controlling Organoid Symmetry Breaking Uncovers an Excitable System Underlying Human Axial Elongation

    Researchers developed a bioengineering and machine learning framework that optimized organoid symmetry breaking by tuning their spatial coupling. This framework enabled reproducible generation of axially elongating organoids, each possessing a tail bud and neural tube.
    [Cell]

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    Integrative Analysis of Multiple Genomic Data from Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Organoids Enables Tumor Subtyping

    Investigators verified the recently suggested two subgroups of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in the organoids model, and compared the characteristics between types.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Incorporating Microglia-Like Cells in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Organoids

    The authors engineered an hiPSC co-culture system containing retinal organoids and microglia-like cells and tested their retinal invasion capacity and function.
    [Journal Of Cellular And Molecular Medicine]

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    Comprehensive Characterization of Fetal and Mature Retinal Cell Identity to Assess the Fidelity of Retinal Organoids

    Researchers performed an extensive meta-atlas characterization of cellular identities of the human eye, covering a wide range of developmental stages.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Pump-Less, Recirculating Organ-on-a-Chip (rOoC) Platform

    The authors developed a novel, pump-less directional flow recirculating organ-on-a-chip platform that creates controlled unidirectional gravity-driven flow by a combination of a 3D-tilting system and an optimized microfluidic layout.
    [Lab on a Chip]

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    Generation of Urine-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Cerebral Organoids for Modeling Down Syndrome

    Investigators generated iPSCs from individuals with Down syndrome and euploid controls using urine-derived cells and examined their ability to differentiate into neurons and astrocytes grown in monolayer cultures, as well as into 3D cerebral organoids.
    [Stem Cell Reviews And Reports]

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    Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cerebral Organoid of Leukoencephalopathy with Vanishing White Matter

    3D brain organoid technology has promoted the study of human nervous system developmental diseases in recent years, providing a potential platform for elucidating the pathological mechanism of neurodevelopmental diseases.
    [Cns Neuroscience & Therapeutics]

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    Neural Cortical Organoids from Self-Assembling Human iPSC as a Model to Investigate Neurotoxicity in Brain Ischemia

    Scientists used a human 3D self-assembling iPSC-derived model to characterize the effects of ischemia caused by oxygen-glucose deprivation.
    [Journal Of Cerebral Blood Flow And Metabolism]

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    Pancreatic Cancer Derived 3D Organoids as a Clinical Tool to Evaluate the Treatment Response

    Pancreatic tumor organoids were created from mouse pancreatic tumor tissues, and their microenvironment was compared to that of in vivo tumors using immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence staining.
    [Frontiers In Oncology]

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    REVIEWS

    Clamping Strategies for Organ-on-a-Chip Devices

    New and more versatile chip designs are urgently needed to enable industrial applications and to support complex, 3D cell cultures.
    [Nature Reviews Materials]

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    Advancing Organoid Design through Co-Emergence, Assembly, and Bioengineering

    Investigators summarize these emerging technologies and provide insights into how they can be utilized to fulfill the potential of stem cells.
    [Trends In Biotechnology]

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    Engineering the Immune Microenvironment into Organoid Models

    As cancer immunotherapy has flourished and efforts to develop novel immunotherapies have increased, models that incorporate immune cells into organoid co-culture to recapitulate the complexity of the tumor microenvironment faithfully are in high demand.
    [Annual Review Of Cancer Biology-Series]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    FDA No Longer Needs to Require Animal Tests before Human Drug Trials

    New medicines need not be tested in animals to receive FDA approval, according to legislation signed by President Joe Biden in late December 2022.
    [ScienceInsider]

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