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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2023

Microfibrous Scaffolds Guide Stem Cell Lumenogenesis and Brain Organoid Engineering.

Kaja I Ritzau-Reid, Sebastien J P Callens, Ruoxiao Xie, Martina Cihova, Daniel Reumann, Christopher L Grigsby, Lino Prados-Martin, Richard Wang, Axel C Moore, James P K Armstrong and 2 more

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 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

24 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

12 authors.

Kaja I Ritzau-ReidDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Sebastien J P CallensDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0179-4098
Ruoxiao XieDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9523-9433
Martina CihovaDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-4738
Daniel ReumannDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4594-8212
Christopher L GrigsbyDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0105-3847
Lino Prados-MartinDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Richard WangDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9845-9770
Axel C MooreDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-4351
James P K ArmstrongDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0599-0643
Juergen A KnoblichInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Vienna, 1030, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6751-3404
Molly M StevensDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8940-9261

Funding

British Heart Foundation RE/18/4/34215Dutch Research Council 019.211EN.025Medical Research Council MR/R015651/1Medical Research Council MR/S00551X/1Swiss National Science Foundation P2EZP2_199862Wellcome Trust 098411Wellcome Trust 208858
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

3D organoids are widely used as tractable in vitro models capable of elucidating aspects of human development and disease. However, the manual and low-throughput culture methods, coupled with a low reproducibility and geometric heterogeneity, restrict the scope and application of organoid research. Combining expertise from stem cell biology and bioengineering offers a promising approach to address some of these limitations. Here, melt electrospinning writing is used to generate tuneable grid scaffolds that can guide the self-organization of pluripotent stem cells into patterned arrays of embryoid bodies. Grid geometry is shown to be a key determinant of stem cell self-organization, guiding the position and size of emerging lumens via curvature-controlled tissue growth. Two distinct methods for culturing scaffold-grown embryoid bodies into either interconnected or spatially discrete cerebral organoids are reported. These scaffolds provide a high-throughput method to generate, culture, and analyze large numbers of organoids, substantially reducing the time investment and manual labor involved in conventional methods of organoid culture. It is anticipated that this methodological development will open up new opportunities for guiding pluripotent stem cell culture, studying lumenogenesis, and generating large numbers of uniform organoids for high-throughput screening.

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OrganoidsPluripotent Stem CellsBrainHumansReproducibility of Resultsbioengineeringlumenogenesismelt electrospinning writingorganoidsscaffoldsstem cells

Identifiers

PMID37572376
PMCPMC7617127

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