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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2025

Recent advances in interspecies chimeras and organogenesis.

Jia Huang, Bingbing He, Jun Wu

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jia HuangDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75390, USA.
Bingbing HeDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75390, USA.
Jun WuDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75390, USA; Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75390, USA; Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. Electronic address: jun2.wu@utsouthwestern.edu.

Funding

Multiscale functional characterization of genomic variation in human developmental disordersUM1HG011996 · NHGRI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Gary Chung Hon, WILLIAM Lee KRAUS · 2021 to 2026
$10.5M
Dissect the mechanisms underlying interspecies pluripotent stem cell competitionR01HD103627 · NICHD · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Michael Buszczak, Ondine B Cleaver · 2022 to 2026
$1.8M
Dissect formative pluripotency using cultured pluripotent stem cellsR01GM138565 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI WU, JUN · 2021 to 2025
$1.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG011996NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD103627NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM138565
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interspecies chimeras have served as a crucial tool for understanding the mechanisms of tissue regeneration and repair, offering promising potential to address the global organ shortage crisis. Through a technique known as interspecies blastocyst complementation, researchers can cultivate tissues and organs of one species within the body of another species. This approach involves injecting donor pluripotent stem cells into a host blastocyst that lacks critical developmental genes, allowing the donor cells to compensate for the missing organs or tissues in the host and thereby produce organs derived from the donor species. This review consolidates key findings from studies published in the past 2 years, highlighting advancements in techniques that enable the development of functional organs across species, as well as the remaining challenges.

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ChimeraOrganogenesisPluripotent Stem CellsAnimalsBlastocystHumans

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PMID40480042
PMCPMC13540974

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