Cells of the human intestinal tract mapped across space and time

R Elmentaite, N Kumasaka, K Roberts, A Fleming… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The cellular landscape of the human intestinal tract is dynamic throughout life, develo** in
utero and changing in response to functional requirements and environmental exposures …

Biomaterial-guided stem cell organoid engineering for modeling development and diseases

P Hoang, Z Ma - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Organoids are miniature models of organs to recapitulate spatiotemporal cellular
organization and tissue functionality. The production of organoids has revolutionized the …

Mesenchymal niches for digestive organ development, homeostasis, and disease

AKH Loe, A Rao-Bhatia, JE Kim, TH Kim - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Mesenchymal–epithelial crosstalk plays a crucial role in organ development and stem cell
function. However, the identity of the mesenchymal cells involved in this exchange was …

[HTML][HTML] R-SPONDIN2+ mesenchymal cells form the bud tip progenitor niche during human lung development

RFC Hein, JH Wu, EM Holloway, T Frum… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
The human respiratory epithelium is derived from a progenitor cell in the distal buds of the
develo** lung. These" bud tip progenitors" are regulated by reciprocal signaling with …

Chromatin regulatory dynamics of early human small intestinal development using a directed differentiation model

YH Hung, S Huang, MK Dame, Q Yu… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The establishment of the small intestinal (SI) lineage during human embryogenesis ensures
functional integrity of the intestine after birth. The chromatin dynamics that drive SI lineage …

Distinct airway progenitor cells drive epithelial heterogeneity in the develo** human lung

AS Conchola, T Frum, Z **ao, PP Hsu, RFC Hein… - Biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Recent advances using single cell genomic approaches have identified new epithelial cell
types and uncovered cellular heterogeneity in the murine and human lung. Here, using …

Science shines in a new virtual SY-Stem

C Buecker, FT Merkle - Development, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The third 'Symposium for the Next Generation of Stem Cell Research'(SY-Stem) was held
virtually on 3-5 March 2021, having been cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic …