Organoid News Volume 2.02 | Jan 21 2021

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    CRISPR/Cas9-Engineered ARID1A-Deficient Human Gastric Cancer Organoid Model Reveals Essential and Non-Essential Modes of Oncogenic Transformation

    CRISPR/Cas9-mediated ARID1A knockout in primary TP53-/- human gastric organoids induced morphologic dysplasia, tumorigenicity and mucinous differentiation.
    [Cancer Discovery]

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    Opposing
    Wnt Signals Regulate Cervical Squamocolumnar Homeostasis and Emergence of Metaplasia

    Mouse lineage tracing, organoid culture and single-molecule RNA in situ hybridizations revealed that the two epithelia derived from separate cervix-resident lineage-specific stem cell populations regulated by opposing Wnt signals from the stroma.
    [Nature Cell Biology]

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    Logical Network-Based Drug-Screening Platform for Alzheimer’s Disease Representing Pathological Features of Human Brain Organoids

    The authors report an efficient, network-based drug-screening platform developed by integrating mathematical modeling and the pathological features of Alzheimer’s disease with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cerebral organoids, including CRISPR-Cas9-edited isogenic lines.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Serine
    Synthesis Pathway Inhibition Cooperates with Dietary Serine and Glycine Limitation for Cancer Therapy

    Scientists showed that inhibition of PHGDH, the first step in the serine synthesis pathway, cooperated with serine and glycine depletion to inhibit one-carbon metabolism and cancer growth.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Epithelial Ridge Cells Are the Principal Organoid-Forming Progenitors of the Mouse Cochlea

    Researchers purified different cochlear cell types from neonatal mice, validated the composition of the different groups with single-cell RNA sequencing, and assessed the various groups’ potential to grow into inner ear organoids.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Proteomics
    Analysis of Human Intestinal Organoids during Hypoxia and Reoxygenation as a Model to Study Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

    Investigators demonstrated the use of human small intestinal organoids to model ischemia-reperfusion injury by exposing organoids to hypoxia and reoxygenation.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    IGFBPs
    Mediate IGF-1’s Functions in Retinal Lamination and Photoreceptor Development during Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation to Retinal Organoids

    Researchers investigated the expression of insulin growth factor binding proteins and their role in the generation of human retinal organoids from human pluripotent stem cells.
    [Stem Cells]

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    Integrated,
    Automated Maintenance, Expansion and Differentiation of 2D and 3D Patient-Derived Cellular Models for High Throughput Drug Screening

    Scientists provided automated protocols for neuronal differentiation of neural progenitor cells in 2D culture and 3D midbrain organoids for high throughput screenings.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    An
    Alternative Approach To Produce Versatile Retinal Organoids with Accelerated Ganglion Cell Development

    The authors describe and characterized a protocol focused on the generation of retinal ganglion cells within an accelerated four week timeframe without any external small molecules or growth factors.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    REVIEWS

    Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): a Systemic Infection

    Scientists summarize existing data on the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in different tissues in both patients and ex vivo models.
    [Clinical Microbiology Reviews]

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    Advances
    in CNS Organoids: A Focus on Organoid-Based Models for Motor Neuron Disease

    The authors review recent advances in the development of CNS organoid models, their application in neurodegenerative diseases and technical limitations.
    [Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    RheinCell Therapeutics Achieves Milestone GMP Certification to Manufacture Cord Blood-Derived iPSCs for Safe and Compliant Cell Therapies

    RheinCell Therapeutics GmbH announced it has received Good Manufacturing Practice certification and Manufacturing Authorization. This marks a landmark achievement for RheinCell, which is now among a select few iPSCs manufacturers to have received the critical certification.
    [Lifescience Newswire]

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