3D brain organoids: studying brain development and disease outside the embryo

S Velasco, B Paulsen, P Arlotta - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Scientists have been fascinated by the human brain for centuries, yet knowledge of the
cellular and molecular events that build the human brain during embryogenesis and of how …

Brain organoids as tools for modeling human neurodevelopmental disorders

JW Adams, FR Cugola, AR Muotri - Physiology, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Brain organoids recapitulate in vitro the specific stages of in vivo human brain development,
thus offering an innovative tool by which to model human neurodevelopmental disease. We …

Brain organoids as a model system for human neurodevelopment and disease

H Setia, AR Muotri - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to reproduce early stages of human neurodevelopment in the laboratory is one of
the most exciting fields in modern neuroscience. The inaccessibility of the healthy human …

Present and future of modeling human brain development in 3D organoids

G Quadrato, P Arlotta - Current opinion in cell biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional (3D) brain organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells hold
great potential to investigate complex human genetic states and to model aspects of human …

Organoids required! A new path to understanding human brain development and disease

P Arlotta - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Our ability to study the developing human brain has recently been dramatically advanced by
the development of human'brain organoids', three-dimensional culture systems that …

Brain organoids for the study of human neurobiology at the interface of in vitro and in vivo

I Chiaradia, MA Lancaster - Nature Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Brain development is an extraordinarily complex process achieved through the spatially and
temporally regulated release of key patterning factors. In vitro neurodevelopmental models …

The emergence of stem cell‐based brain organoids: trends and challenges

J Gopalakrishnan - BioEssays, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in 3D cultures exploiting the self‐organization ability of pluripotent
stem cells have enabled the generation of powerful in vitro systems termed brain organoids …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

Cerebral organoids as an experimental platform for human neurogenomics

TJ Nowakowski, SR Salama - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cerebral cortex forms early in development according to a series of heritable
neurodevelopmental instructions. Despite deep evolutionary conservation of the cerebral …

Human 3D brain organoids: steering the demolecularization of brain and neurological diseases

YK Adlakha - Cell Death Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding of human brain development, dysfunction and neurological diseases has
remained limited and challenging due to inability to recapitulate human brain-specific …