[HTML][HTML] Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

Organs-on-chips: into the next decade

LA Low, C Mummery, BR Berridge, CP Austin… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs), also known as microphysiological systems or 'tissue
chips'(the terms are synonymous), have attracted substantial interest in recent years owing …

Tissue geometry drives deterministic organoid patterning

N Gjorevski, M Nikolaev, TE Brown, O Mitrofanova… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Stem cell–derived organoids are in vitro tissue and organ mimetics that
have enormous potential as models for human organ development and disease, as …

[HTML][HTML] Human organoids: model systems for human biology and medicine

J Kim, BK Koo, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The historical reliance of biological research on the use of animal models has sometimes
made it challenging to address questions that are specific to the understanding of human …

Engineering adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy

C Li, RJ Samulski - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-mediated gene delivery was recently approved for the
treatment of inherited blindness and spinal muscular atrophy, and long-term therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint therapy for solid tumours: clinical dilemmas and future trends

Q Sun, Z Hong, C Zhang, L Wang, Z Han… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICBs), in addition to targeting CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-
L1, novel targeting LAG-3 drugs have also been approved in clinical application. With the …

Synthetic dynamic hydrogels promote degradation-independent in vitro organogenesis

A Chrisnandy, D Blondel, S Rezakhani, N Broguiere… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Epithelial organoids are most efficiently grown from mouse-tumour-derived, reconstituted
extracellular matrix hydrogels, whose poorly defined composition, batch-to-batch variability …

[HTML][HTML] A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19

Z Tang, N Kong, X Zhang, Y Liu, P Hu, S Mou… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlights the importance of materials science in
providing tools and technologies for antiviral research and treatment development. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Neurological complications and infection mechanism of SARS-COV-2

D Wan, T Du, W Hong, L Chen, H Que, S Lu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Currently, SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global pandemic and threatened many lives.
Although SARS-CoV-2 mainly causes respiratory diseases, growing data indicate that SARS …

Organoids-on-a-chip

SE Park, A Georgescu, D Huh - Science, 2019 - science.org
Recent studies have demonstrated an array of stem cell–derived, self-organizing miniature
organs, termed organoids, that replicate the key structural and functional characteristics of …