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Summary: The field of nanoengineering and nanomedicine has experienced explosive growth in the last two decades, with engineered nanoparticles garnering great attention. Researchers are focusing on developing new technologies to simulate and analyze the efficacy and safety of nanotherapeutics in human physiological systems in vitro. Organ-on-a-chip technology represents the latest advance in addressing the limitations of conventional preclinical models.

NANO CONVERGENCE (2021)

Article Emergency Medicine

Using bioprinting and spheroid culture to create a skin model with sweat glands and hair follicles

Yijie Zhang et al.

Summary: An in vitro model of skin constructs with sweat glands (SGs) and hair follicles (HFs) was established to explore the interaction between these two appendages in regeneration. The results showed that HF spheroids promoted differentiation of both SGs and HFs in SG scaffolds, while SG scaffolds mainly promoted SG differentiation and had little effect on HF potency in HF spheroids. The study provides insights into the molecular mechanisms of SG and HF regeneration.

BURNS & TRAUMA (2021)

Review Engineering, Biomedical

Organoids: a novel modality in disease modeling

Zahra Heydari et al.

Summary: The limitations of monolayer culture have prompted scientists to explore new models that can accurately replicate the architecture and function of human organs. Recent advancements in protocol improvement have led to the development of three-dimensional organ-like structures known as 'organoids', which can mimic the characteristics of real organs. These organoid-based 3D models offer novel opportunities for drug screening, toxicology research, and molecular pathophysiology studies.

BIO-DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING (2021)

Review Engineering, Biomedical

Developments and Opportunities for 3D Bioprinted Organoids

Ya Ren et al.

Summary: Organoids developed from pluripotent stem cells or adult stem cells are three-dimensional cell cultures that mimic certain biological developmental processes of organs, with promising applications in drug screening, disease modeling, and regenerative repair. The challenges facing organoid construction include breakthroughs in scale size, vascularization, reproducibility, and precise architecture. Bioprinting techniques, with the application of bioinks, have accelerated the process of organoid construction, and a multidisciplinary combination of developmental biology, disease pathology, cell biology, and materials science will help overcome obstacles to further develop real organs.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOPRINTING (2021)

Review Cell & Tissue Engineering

Organoids: A New Model for SARS-CoV-2 Translational Research

Jin Yu

Summary: The 2019-novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic presents a significant public health challenge, and the use of organoid models can provide a more accurate simulation of viral activity, facilitating the development of antiviral drugs.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STEM CELLS (2021)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

Controllable fusion of human brain organoids using acoustofluidics

Zheng Ao et al.

Summary: Researchers developed a controllable acoustofluidic method to improve the standardization of fused organoid models by effectively modeling the development of human mesocortical pathways. They successfully manipulated neuroepithelial bud alignment in acoustically fused human forebrain and midbrain organoids, demonstrating regulation of neuronal projection and progenitor cell division. This approach offers a label-free, contact-free, and highly biocompatible tool for assembling organoids and enhancing disease modeling and tissue engineering.

LAB ON A CHIP (2021)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

HiPSC-derived multi-organoids-on-chip system for safety assessment of antidepressant drugs

Fangchao Yin et al.

Summary: The study developed a multi-organoids-on-a-chip system derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells to assess drug safety, showing the hepatic metabolism-dependent cardiotoxicity induced by an antidepressant drug through co-culturing liver and heart organoids.

LAB ON A CHIP (2021)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Modelling monogenic autism spectrum disorder using mouse cortical organoids

Sai Hali et al.

BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS (2020)

Article Cell & Tissue Engineering

Circadian Entrainment Triggers Maturation of Human In Vitro Islets

Juan R. Alvarez-Dominguez et al.

CELL STEM CELL (2020)

Editorial Material Cell & Tissue Engineering

Human iPSCs Stretch to Improve Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts

Nadia O. Abutaleb et al.

CELL STEM CELL (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

The gut microbiome

Herb Brody

NATURE (2020)

Article Engineering, Biomedical

Fully synthetic matrices for in vitro culture of primary human intestinal enteroids and endometrial organoids

Victor Hernandez-Gordillo et al.

BIOMATERIALS (2020)

Review Neurosciences

Human Brain Organoids to Decode Mechanisms of Microcephaly

Elke Gabriel et al.

FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE (2020)

Article Cell Biology

Circadian Clock Regulation of Developmental Time in the Kidney

Hanbin Dan et al.

CELL REPORTS (2020)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Vascularized human cortical organoids (vOrganoids) model cortical development in vivo

Yingchao Shi et al.

PLOS BIOLOGY (2020)

Review Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

Synthetic alternatives to Matrigel

Elizabeth A. Aisenbrey et al.

NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS (2020)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

A Chemically Defined Hydrogel for Human Liver Organoid Culture

Shicheng Ye et al.

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Magnetic levitational bioassembly of 3D tissue construct in space

Vladislav A. Parfenov et al.

SCIENCE ADVANCES (2020)

Article Biology

Robust production of uniform human cerebral organoids from pluripotent stem cells

Adam A. Sivitilli et al.

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE (2020)

Article Cell & Tissue Engineering

Organoids Model Transcriptional Hallmarks of Oncogenic KRAS Activation in Lung Epithelial Progenitor Cells

Antonella F. M. Dost et al.

CELL STEM CELL (2020)

Review Cell Biology

Human organoids: model systems for human biology and medicine

Jihoon Kim et al.

NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Mechano-modulatory synthetic niches for liver organoid derivation

Giovanni Sorrentino et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Hydrogel-based milliwell arrays for standardized and scalable retinal organoid cultures

S. Decembrini et al.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis

Mikhail Nikolaev et al.

NATURE (2020)

Review Multidisciplinary Sciences

Concepts of extracellular matrix remodelling in tumour progression and metastasis

Juliane Winkler et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2020)

Review Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

Microtechnology-based methods for organoid models

Vanessa Velasco et al.

MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING (2020)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Generation of Functional Human 3D Cortico-Motor Assembloids

Jimena Andersen et al.

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Creation of bladder assembloids mimicking tissue regeneration and cancer

Eunjee Kim et al.

NATURE (2020)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Generation of human striatal organoids and cortico-striatal assembloids from human pluripotent stem cells

Yuki Miura et al.

NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY (2020)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Toward Spatial Identities in Human Brain Organoids-on-Chip Induced by Morphogen-Soaked Beads

Lihi Ben-Reuven et al.

BIOENGINEERING-BASEL (2020)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

A Platform for Generation of Chamber-Specific Cardiac Tissues and Disease Modeling

Yimu Zhao et al.

Article Biochemical Research Methods

Flow-enhanced vascularization and maturation of kidney organoids in vitro

Kimberly A. Homan et al.

NATURE METHODS (2019)

Article Neurosciences

Cerebral organoids at the air-liquid interface generate diverse nerve tracts with functional output

Stefano L. Giandomenico et al.

NATURE NEUROSCIENCE (2019)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

3D Printing of Personalized Thick and Perfusable Cardiac Patches and Hearts

Nadav Noor et al.

ADVANCED SCIENCE (2019)

Review Cell & Tissue Engineering

Engineering Stem Cell Self-organization to Build Better Organoids

Jonathan A. Brassard et al.

CELL STEM CELL (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Individual brain organoids reproducibly form cell diversity of the human cerebral cortex

Silvia Velasco et al.

NATURE (2019)

Review Multidisciplinary Sciences

Organoids-on-a-chip

Sunghee Estelle Park et al.

SCIENCE (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Modelling human hepato-biliary-pancreatic organogenesis from the foregut-midgut boundary

Hiroyuki Koike et al.

NATURE (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Controlled modelling of human epiblast and amnion development using stem cells

Yi Zheng et al.

NATURE (2019)

Review Urology & Nephrology

Human kidney organoids: progress and remaining challenges

Ryuichi Nishinakamura

NATURE REVIEWS NEPHROLOGY (2019)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

Engineering of human brain organoids with a functional vascular-like system

Bilal Cakir et al.

NATURE METHODS (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Extracellular matrix hydrogel derived from decellularized tissues enables endodermal organoid culture

Giovanni Giuseppe Giobbe et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2019)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

Long-term flow through human intestinal organoids with the gut organoid flow chip (GOFlowChip)

Barkan Sidar et al.

LAB ON A CHIP (2019)

Review Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

The promises and challenges of patient-derived tumor organoids in drug development and precision oncology

Lauren M. Granat et al.

ANIMAL MODELS AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE (2019)

Review Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Use and application of 3D-organoid technology

Benedetta Artegiani et al.

HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS (2018)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

Human brain organoid-on-a-chip to model prenatal nicotine exposure

Yaqing Wang et al.

LAB ON A CHIP (2018)

Article Physics, Multidisciplinary

Human brain organoids on a chip reveal the physics of folding

Eyal Karzbrun et al.

NATURE PHYSICS (2018)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Engineering human pluripotent stem cells into a functional skeletal muscle tissue

Lingjun Rao et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2018)

Article Engineering, Biomedical

Cellulose-based scaffolds for fluorescence lifetime imaging-assisted tissue engineering

Neil O'Donnell et al.

ACTA BIOMATERIALIA (2018)

Review Genetics & Heredity

Progress and potential in organoid research

Giuliana Rossi et al.

NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS (2018)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Development of a primary human Small Intestine-on-a-Chip using biopsy-derived organoids

Magdalena Kasendra et al.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2018)

Review Oncology

Organoids in cancer research

Jarno Drost et al.

NATURE REVIEWS CANCER (2018)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Engineered human pluripotent-stem-cell-derived intestinal tissues with a functional enteric nervous system

Michael J. Workman et al.

NATURE MEDICINE (2017)

Article Cell Biology

A hollow fiber system for simple generation of human brain organoids

Yujuan Zhu et al.

INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY (2017)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

In situ generation of human brain organoids on a micropillar array

Yujuan Zhu et al.

LAB ON A CHIP (2017)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Screening drug effects in patient-derived cancer cells links organoid responses to genome alterations

Julia Jabs et al.

MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (2017)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Guided self-organization and cortical plate formation in human brain organoids

Madeline A. Lancaster et al.

NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY (2017)

Review Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Tumor Organoids as a Pre-clinical Cancer Model for Drug Discovery

Fleur Weeber et al.

CELL CHEMICAL BIOLOGY (2017)

Review Engineering, Biomedical

Extracellular matrix hydrogels from decellularized tissues: Structure and function

Lindsey T. Saldin et al.

ACTA BIOMATERIALIA (2017)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Brain-Region-Specific Organoids Using Mini-bioreactors for Modeling ZIKV Exposure

Xuyu Qian et al.

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Designer matrices for intestinal stem cell and organoid culture

Nikolce Glorevski et al.

NATURE (2016)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

A recellularized human colon model identifies cancer driver genes

Huanhuan Joyce Chen et al.

NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY (2016)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Google Glass-Directed Monitoring and Control of Microfluidic Biosensors and Actuators

Yu Shrike Zhang et al.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2016)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Modeling colorectal cancer using CRISPR-Cas9-mediated engineering of human intestinal organoids

Mami Matano et al.

NATURE MEDICINE (2015)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development

J. Gray Camp et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2015)

Review Cell & Tissue Engineering

Growing Tissues in Real and Simulated Microgravity: New Methods for Tissue Engineering

Daniela Grimm et al.

TISSUE ENGINEERING PART B-REVIEWS (2014)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly

Madeline A. Lancaster et al.

NATURE (2013)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

Biowire: a platform for maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

Sara S. Nunes et al.

NATURE METHODS (2013)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Forming electrical networks in three dimensions by self-assembly

DH Gracias et al.

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