Organoid News Volume 4.46 | Nov 23 2023

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    Organoid News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 4.46 – 23 November, 2023
    TOP STORY

    A Multicellular Liver Organoid Model for Investigating Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Progression

    Investigators presented a novel, multicellular liver organoid (LO) model using a co-culture system of macrophages and LOs differentiated from the same human PSCs.
    [Hepatology]

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    Cancer Organoid-Based Diagnosis Reactivity Prediction (CODRP) Index-Based Anticancer Drug Sensitivity Test in ALK-Rearrangement Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

    A drug sensitivity test was performed using patient-derived organoids from the patient tissue and the primary cancer characteristics of pateint-derived organoids were confirmed by pathological comparision with tissue slides.
    [Journal Of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research]

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    Hybrid Endometrial-Derived Hydrogels: Human Organoid Culture Models and In Vivo Perspectives

    Scientists presented a hybrid endometrial-derived hydrogel that combined the rigidity of PuraMatrix with the natural scaffold components and interactions of a decellularized porcine endometrial extracellular matrix hydrogel.
    [Advanced Healthcare Materials]

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    Stress-Free Cell Aggregation by Using the CEPT Cocktail Enhances Embryoid Body and Organoid Fitness

    The authors demonstrated that embryoid bodies and various organoid models could be optimized by using the chroman 1, emricasan, polyamine, trans-ISRIB (CEPT) small molecule cocktail, a polypharmacology approach that ensured cytoprotection and cell survival.
    [Biofabrication]

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    Modular 3D Printed Platform for Fluidically Connected Human Brain Organoid Culture

    Researchers developed a 3D printing pipeline for the fabrication of tailor-made culturing platforms for fluidically connected but spatially separated brain organoid array culture.
    [Biofabrication]

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    Dual Targeting of MAPK and PI3K Pathways Unlocks Redifferentiation of Braf-Mutated Thyroid Cancer Organoids

    Using mESC-derived thyroid organoids, scientists developed a BrafV637E-inducible model able to recapitulate the features of papillary thyroid cancer in vitro.
    [Oncogene]

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    HIF-1α Promotes Kidney Organoid Vascularization and Applications in Disease Modeling

    For the vascularization study, kidney organoids were generated from hiPSCs. Researchers overexpressed hypoxia-inducible factor-1 α (HIF-1α) via plasmid transfection or treated dimethyloxallyl glycine in kidney progenitor cells to detect the endothelium.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    NOTCH3 Signaling Controls Human Trophoblast Stem Cell Expansion and Differentiation

    Using trophoblast stem cells, trophoblast organoids, and primary cytotrophoblasts of early pregnancy, scientists showed that autocrine NOTCH3 signaling controlled human placental expansion and differentiation.
    [Development]

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    Deriving Early Single-Rosette Brain Organoids from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Investigators developed a human brain organoid technique that generated self-organizing, single-rosette cortical organoids with reproducible size and structure at early timepoints.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Engineered Synthetic Matrices for Human Intestinal Organoid Culture and Therapeutic Delivery

    Human intestinal organoids derived from PSCs or adult stem cell biopsies represent a powerful platform to study human development, drug testing, and disease modeling in vitro, and serve as a cell source for tissue regeneration and therapeutic advances in vivo.
    [Advanced Materials]

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    Collagen and Derivatives-Based Materials as Substrates for the Establishment of Glioblastoma Organoids

    Scientists review recent advances in natural biomaterials-based glioblastoma organoid models, as in vitro experimental platforms to simulate glioblastoma tumor biology and response to tested drugs.
    [International Journal of Biological Macromolecules]

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    As Scientists Face a Flood of Papers, AI Developers Aim to Help

    Artificial intelligence tools promise to help researchers digest scholarly literature in new ways, but technical and legal barriers may hinder widespread use.
    [Science]

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