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 …

Advances in pluripotent stem cells: history, mechanisms, technologies, and applications

G Liu, BT David, M Trawczynski, RG Fessler - Stem cell reviews and …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past 20 years, and particularly in the last decade, significant developmental
milestones have driven basic, translational, and clinical advances in the field of stem cell …

Self-assembling peptide EAK16 and RADA16 nanofiber scaffold hydrogel

F Gelain, Z Luo, S Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Short peptides are ubiquitous in nature. They are found as hormones, pheromones,
antibacterial and antifungal agents in innate immunity systems, toxins, and pesticides. But …

Induced pluripotent stem cells and their use in human models of disease and development

P Karagiannis, K Takahashi, M Saito… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The discovery of somatic cell nuclear transfer proved that somatic cells can carry the same
genetic code as the zygote, and that activating parts of this code are sufficient to reprogram …

Self-organizing 3D human neural tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells recapitulate Alzheimer's disease phenotypes

WK Raja, AE Mungenast, YT Lin, T Ko, F Abdurrob… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The dismal success rate of clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) motivates us to
develop model systems of AD pathology that have higher predictive validity. The advent of …

Engineered in vitro disease models

KH Benam, S Dauth, B Hassell… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The ultimate goal of most biomedical research is to gain greater insight into mechanisms of
human disease or to develop new and improved therapies or diagnostics. Although great …

3D neural tissue models: From spheroids to bioprinting

P Zhuang, AX Sun, J An, CK Chua, SY Chew - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro neural tissue models provide a better recapitulation
of in vivo cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions than conventional two …

2D versus 3D human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cultures for neurodegenerative disease modelling

EGZ Centeno, H Cimarosti, A Bithell - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD),
Huntington's disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), affect millions of people …

Recent progress in translational engineered in vitro models of the central nervous system

P Nikolakopoulou, R Rauti, D Voulgaris, I Shlomy… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The complexity of the human brain poses a substantial challenge for the development of
models of the CNS. Current animal models lack many essential human characteristics (in …

High-throughput screening platforms in the discovery of novel drugs for neurodegenerative diseases

H Aldewachi, RN Al-Zidan, MT Conner, MM Salman - Bioengineering, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are incurable and debilitating conditions that result in
progressive degeneration and/or death of nerve cells in the central nervous system (CNS) …