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 …

Towards organoid culture without Matrigel

MT Kozlowski, CJ Crook, HT Ku - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids—cellular aggregates derived from stem or progenitor cells that recapitulate organ
function in miniature—are of growing interest in developmental biology and medicine …

Tunable hydrogel viscoelasticity modulates human neural maturation

JG Roth, MS Huang, RS Navarro, JT Akram… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have emerged as a promising in vitro model
system for studying neurodevelopment. However, current models remain limited in their …

Functional and biomimetic materials for engineering of the three-dimensional cell microenvironment

G Huang, F Li, X Zhao, Y Ma, Y Li, M Lin, G Jin… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The cell microenvironment has emerged as a key determinant of cell behavior and function
in development, physiology, and pathophysiology. The extracellular matrix (ECM) within the …

Designer matrices for intestinal stem cell and organoid culture

N Gjorevski, N Sachs, A Manfrin, S Giger, ME Bragina… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Epithelial organoids recapitulate multiple aspects of real organs, making them promising
models of organ development, function and disease,,. However, the full potential of …

Engineering stem cell self-organization to build better organoids

JA Brassard, MP Lutolf - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Organoids form through self-organization processes in which initially homogeneous
populations of stem cells spontaneously break symmetry and undergo in-vivo-like pattern …

Engineering stem cell organoids

X Yin, BE Mead, H Safaee, R Langer, JM Karp, O Levy - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Organoid systems leverage the self-organizing properties of stem cells to create diverse
multi-cellular tissue proxies. Most organoid models only represent single or partial …

High-throughput methods in the discovery and study of biomaterials and materiobiology

L Yang, S Pijuan-Galito, HS Rho, AS Vasilevich… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The complex interaction of cells with biomaterials (ie, materiobiology) plays an increasingly
pivotal role in the development of novel implants, biomedical devices, and tissue …

Engineering organoid vascularization

S Grebenyuk, A Ranga - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The development of increasingly biomimetic human tissue analogs has been a long-
standing goal in two important biomedical applications: drug discovery and regenerative …

Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials

JG Roth, MS Huang, TL Li, VR Feig, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells have emerged as a promising in vitro model system for
studying the brain. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional cell culture paradigms have …