Organoid News Volume 4.07 | Feb 23 2023

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    Vol. 4.07 - 23 February, 2023
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    Engineered Human Hepatocyte Organoids Enable CRISPR-Based Target Discovery and Drug Screening for Steatosis

    The authors used human fetal hepatocyte organoids to model the first stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, steatosis, representing three different triggers: free fatty acid loading, interindividual genetic variability, and monogenic lipid disorders.
    [Nature Biotechnology]

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    Dysregulated Lung Stroma Drives Emphysema Exacerbation by Potentiating Resident Lymphocytes to Suppress an Epithelial Stem Cell Reservoir

    Using 3D immune-stem cell organoids, single-cell analysis of human emphysema lungs, and studies in murine models, researchers investigated aberrant tissue-immune interactions in emphysema.
    [Immunity]

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    Alpha Kinase 3 Signaling at the M-Band Maintains Sarcomere Integrity and Proteostasis in Striated Muscle

    Alpha kinase 3 (ALPK3) deficiency impaired contractility both in human cardiac organoids and in the hearts of mice harboring a pathogenic truncating Alpk3 variant.
    [Nature Cardiovascular Research]

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    Modeling of Fabry Disease Nephropathy Using Patient Derived Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Kidney Organoid System

    The authors generated hiPSC lines using peripheral blood mononuclear cells from two male Fabry disease patients with different types of GLA mutations, and then generated kidney organoids using wild-type hiPSC and mutant hiPSCs.
    [Journal Of Translational Medicine]

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    Transcriptomic Intratumor Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Patient-Derived Organoids May Reflect the Unique Biological Features of the Tumor of Origin

    Scientists established patient-derived organoid lines from ten patients with breast cancer and performed single-cell transcriptomic analysis.
    [Breast Cancer Research]

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    SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Airway Organoids Reveals Conserved Use of Tetraspanin-8 by Ancestral, Delta, and Omicron Variants

    Researchers biobanked airway organoids by preserving stem cell function, and then optimized viral infection with H1N1/PR8 and comprehensively characterized epithelial responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in phenotypically stable airway organoids from 20 different subjects.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Granulin Loss of Function in Human Mature Brain Organoids Implicates Astrocytes in TDP-43 Pathology

    Investigators presented a 3D iPSC-derived paradigm—mature brain organoids—composed of cortical-like-astrocytes and neurons, and used these organoids to model TAR-DNA binding protein 43-related pathology.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Generation of Self-Organized Autonomic Ganglion Organoids from Fibroblasts

    Researchers identified a combination of triple transcription factors capable of efficiently reprogramming mouse fibroblasts into self-organized and networked induced autonomic ganglion organoids, and characterized them by immunostaining, qRT-PCR, patch-clamping, and scRNA-seq approaches.
    [iScience]

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    SERS Microsensors for pH Measurements in the Lumen and ECM of Stem Cell Derived Human Airway Organoids

    Scientists demonstrated that by mixing surface enhanced Raman scattering microsensors (SERS-MS) into the extracellular matrix (ECM) of airway organoid cultures, the probes could be engulfed by expanding organoids, and reported on local pH in the organoid lumen and ECM.
    [Chemical Communications]

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    REVIEWS

    Organoids and Organs-on-Chips: Insights Into Predicting the Efficacy of Systemic Treatment in Colorectal Cancer

    Investigators highlight the use of organoids and organs-on-chips as complementary reference tools in treating colorectal cancer from the perspective of clinical efficacy predictability.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    The Role of Macrophages in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Advancements in 3D Co-Cultures

    The authors review how the implementation of 3D organoid technology into tumor microenvironment-modeling platforms might facilitate the exploration of macrophage-targeted therapies in non-small cell lung cancer immunotherapeutic research.
    [Elife]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Treasury Takes Back £1.6Bn Promised for Science

    The money had been earmarked for UK involvement in the EU's Horizon Europe €100bn research programme. The funds have not been spent because the UK's association with the programme has been held up by the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
    [BBC News]

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