Structurally dynamic hydrogels for biomedical applications: pursuing a fine balance between macroscopic stability and microscopic dynamics

K Zhang, Q Feng, Z Fang, L Gu, L Bian - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, hydrogels are attracting increasing
attention in both basic and translational biomedical studies. Although the classical hydrogels …

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 …

Production of human spinal-cord organoids recapitulating neural-tube morphogenesis

JH Lee, H Shin, MR Shaker, HJ Kim, SH Park… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Human spinal-cord-like tissues induced from human pluripotent stem cells are typically
insufficiently mature and do not mimic the morphological features of neurulation. Here, we …

3D high-density microelectrode array with optical stimulation and drug delivery for investigating neural circuit dynamics

H Shin, S Jeong, JH Lee, W Sun, N Choi… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Investigation of neural circuit dynamics is crucial for deciphering the functional connections
among regions of the brain and understanding the mechanism of brain dysfunction. Despite …

Kirigami electronics for long-term electrophysiological recording of human neural organoids and assembloids

X Yang, C Forró, TL Li, Y Miura, TJ Zaluska… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Realizing the full potential of organoids and assembloids to model neural development and
disease will require improved methods for long-term, minimally invasive recording of …

Spatio-temporal dynamics enhance cellular diversity, neuronal function and further maturation of human cerebral organoids

P Saglam-Metiner, U Devamoglu, Y Filiz… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The bioengineerined and whole matured human brain organoids stand as highly valuable
three-dimensional in vitro brain-mimetic models to recapitulate in vivo brain development …

Three-dimensional cell cultures: the bridge between in vitro and in vivo models

O Urzì, R Gasparro, E Costanzo, A De Luca… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Although historically, the traditional bidimensional in vitro cell system has been widely used
in research, providing much fundamental information regarding cellular functions and …

[HTML][HTML] The iPSC perspective on schizophrenia

N Räsänen, J Tiihonen, M Koskuvi, Š Lehtonen… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Over a decade of schizophrenia research using human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-
derived neural models has provided substantial data describing neurobiological …

A microRNA signature that correlates with cognition and is a target against cognitive decline

MR Islam, L Kaurani, T Berulava… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
While some individuals age without pathological memory impairments, others develop age‐
associated cognitive diseases. Since changes in cognitive function develop slowly over time …

[HTML][HTML] Shifting developmental trajectories during critical periods of brain formation

N Dehorter, I Del Pino - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Research on critical periods of brain development is greatly expanding our understanding of
the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the epochs of heightened plasticity …