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ArticleDevelopmental cell2025

A mouse organoid platform for modeling cerebral cortex development and cis-regulatory evolution in vitro.

Daniel Medina-Cano, Mohammed T Islam, Veronika Petrova, Sanjana Dixit, Zerina Balic, Marty G Yang, Matthias Stadtfeld, Emily S Wong, Thomas Vierbuchen

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Article in Developmental cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  3. Incubator-Free Organoid Culture in a Sealed Recirculatory System.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  4. ASPEN: Robust detection of allelic dynamics in single cell RNA-seq.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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9 authors.

Daniel Medina-CanoDevelopmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Mohammed T IslamDevelopmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Veronika PetrovaVictor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia.
Sanjana DixitDevelopmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Zerina BalicDevelopmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Marty G YangDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Matthias StadtfeldSanford I Weill Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Emily S WongVictor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia. Electronic address: e.wong@victorchang.edu.au.
Thomas VierbuchenDevelopmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: vierbuct@mskcc.org.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Chemical Genetic Dissection of SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex Functions in Cerebral Cortex DevelopmentR01NS126921 · NINDS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI LORENZ P. STUDER · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS126921
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural selection has shaped the gene regulatory networks that orchestrate cortical development, leading to structural and functional variation across mammals, but the molecular and cellular mechanisms underpinning these changes have only begun to be characterized. Here, we develop a reproducible protocol for cerebral cortex organoid generation from mouse epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs), which recapitulates the timing and cellular differentiation programs of the embryonic cortex. We generated cortical organoids from F1 hybrid EpiSCs derived from crosses between laboratory mice (C57BL/6J) and four wild-derived inbred strains spanning ∼1 M years of evolutionary divergence to comprehensively map cis-acting transcriptional regulatory variation across developing cortical cell types, using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). We identify hundreds of genes that exhibit dynamic allelic imbalances, providing the first insight into the developmental mechanisms underpinning changes in cortical structure and function between subspecies. These experimental methods and cellular resources represent a powerful platform for investigating gene regulation in the developing cerebral cortex.

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Cerebral CortexGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Regulatory NetworksOrganoidsAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPluripotent Stem Cellscerebral cortexevo-devogenomicsneural developmentorganoidspluripotent stem cellstranscriptional regulation

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PMID40876454
PMCPMC12404679

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