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ArticleHardwareX2019

Spin∞: an updated miniaturized spinning bioreactor design for the generation of human cerebral organoids from pluripotent stem cells.

Alejandra I Romero-Morales, Brian J O'Grady, Kylie M Balotin, Leon M Bellan, Ethan S Lippmann, Vivian Gama

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Article in HardwareX, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alejandra I Romero-MoralesDepartment of Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Brian J O'GradyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Kylie M BalotinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Leon M BellanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Ethan S LippmannDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Vivian GamaDepartment of Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Funding

Tumor Immunology and Microenvironment Research ProgramP30CA068485 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI MATTHEW J TYSKA · 1995 to 2026
$172.8M
Translational Analysis CoreP30DK058404 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI RICHARD M. PEEK · 2002 to 2026
$29.9M
Vanderbilt Diabetes Research CenterP30DK020593 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI OWEN P MCGUINNESS · 2012 to 2026
$29.3M
Shop Module CoreP30EY008126 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Kevin L Schey · 1989 to 2026
$19.6M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGYT32ES007028 · NIEHS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI F PETER Guengerich, Fiona Edith Harrison · 1985 to 2026
$15.7M
Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Physiology CenterU24DK059637 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WASSERMAN, DAVID H · 2001 to 2015
$14.9M
Research Project: Sensory and Multisensory Contributions to AutismU54HD083211 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI DYKENS, ELISABETH MAY · 2015 to 2019
$7.1M
The BCL-2 family controls stem cell identity by regulating mitochondrial dynamics and primingR35GM128915 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Vivian Gama · 2018 to 2026
$3.8M
Vanderbilt Interdisciplinary Training Program in Alzheimer's DiseaseT32AG058524 · NIA · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI ANGELA L. JEFFERSON · 2018 to 2026
$3.5M
(PQ5) Assessing the contribution of mitochondrial heterogeneity to gliomagenesis using single cell approachesR21CA227483 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI GAMA, VIVIAN · 2019 to 2020
$376k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) brain organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), have become a powerful system to study early development events and to model human disease. Cerebral organoids are generally produced in static culture or in a culture vessel with active mixing, and the two most widely used systems for mixing are a large spinning flask and a miniaturized multi-well spinning bioreactor (also known as Spin Omega (SpinΩ)). The SpinΩ provides a system that is amenable to drug testing, has increased throughput and reproducibility, and utilizes less culture media. However, technical limitations of this system include poor stability of select components and an elevated risk of contamination due to the inability to sterilize the device preassembled. Here, we report a new design of the miniaturized bioreactor system, which we term Spinfinity (Spin∞) that overcomes these concerns to permit long-term experiments. This updated device is amenable to months-long (over 200 days) experiments without concern of unexpected malfunctions.

Indexed as

3D printingBioreactorBrain organoidCortical differentiationLong term culturePluripotent stem cells

Identifiers

PMID32864515
PMCPMC7451502

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