Organoid News Volume 4.17 | May 4 2023

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    Vol. 4.17 – 4 May, 2023
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    Glioblastoma Remodeling of Human Neural Circuits Decreases Survival

    Using intracranial brain recordings during lexical retrieval language tasks in awake humans together with site-specific tumor tissue biopsies and cell biology experiments, scientists found that gliomas remodel functional neural circuitry.
    [Nature]

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    Stomach-Derived Human Insulin-Secreting Organoids Restore Glucose Homeostasis

    Researchers described a protocol to differentiate cultured human gastric stem cells into pancreatic islet-like organoids containing gastric insulin-secreting cells that resembled β-cells in molecular hallmarks and function.
    [Nature Cell Biology]

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    Organoid Models of Fibrolamellar Carcinoma Mutations Reveal Hepatocyte Transdifferentiation Through Cooperative BAP1 and PRKAR2A Loss

    Investigators generated a set of human hepatocyte organoid models engineered to reflect different genetic backgrounds as identified in fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) or FLC-like cases.
    [Nature Communications]

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    IL-1β Is an Androgen-Responsive Target in Macrophages for Immunotherapy of Prostate Cancer

    Researchers reported that androgen receptor signaling pathway was evidently activated in tumor-associated macrophages of prostate cancer both in mice and humans.
    [Advanced Science]

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    Microenvironment-Driven Dynamic Chromatin Changes in Glioblastoma Recapitulate Early Neural Development at Single-Cell Resolution

    Using a glioblastoma cerebral organoid model, investigators profiled the chromatin accessibility of 28,040 single cells in five patient-derived glioma stem cell lines.
    [Cancer Research]

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    Modeling Human Skeletal Development Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Scientists described a method that directed iPSC-derived sclerotome to chondroprogenitors in 3D pellet culture then to articular chondrocytes or, alternatively, along the growth plate cartilage pathway to become hypertrophic chondrocytes that could transition to osteoblasts.
    [Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America]

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    Vascular Cells Improve Functionality of Human Cardiac Organoids

    Researchers showed that vascular cells within human cardiac organoids enhanced their maturation, force of contraction, and utility in disease modeling.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Cells Sorted off hiPSC-Derived Kidney Organoids Coupled with Immortalized Cells Reliably Model the Proximal Tubule

    Pseudo proximal tubule cells extracted from hiPSC-derived kidney organoids were combined and cultured with immortalized proximal tubule cells.
    [Communications Biology]

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    Loss of LGR5 through Therapy-Induced Downregulation or Gene Ablation Is Associated with Resistance and Enhanced MET-STAT3 Signaling in Colorectal Cancer Cells

    Combination treatment of mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET)-STAT3 inhibitors with irinotecan or antibody–drug conjugates substantiated synergistic effects in colorectal cancer cells and tumor organoids.
    [Molecular Cancer Therapeutics]

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    REVIEWS

    Human Pluripotent-Stem-Cell-Derived Organoids for Drug Discovery and Evaluation

    The authors provide an overview of the achievements and challenges in using hPSC-derived organoids to conduct relevant high-throughput, high-content screens, and drug evaluation.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Roche Launches the Institute of Human Biology to Pioneer New Approaches for Drug Discovery and Development

    Tapping into exciting new advances in biology, medical and scientific knowledge, technology, and data science, the Institute of Human Biology is a cross-disciplinary endeavor bringing together academia and industry.
    [Roche]

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    Mount Sinai Launches Institute for Regenerative Medicine

    The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced the creation of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine to foster innovative research into new pathways to cure a host of diseases from leukemia to Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and airway diseases.
    [Mount Sinai]

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