SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

MM Lamers, BL Haagmans - Nature reviews microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
caused a devastating pandemic. Although most people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop …

Organoids

Z Zhao, X Chen, AM Dowbaj, A Sljukic… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are simple tissue-engineered cell-based in vitro models that recapitulate many
aspects of the complex structure and function of the corresponding in vivo tissue. They can …

Altered TMPRSS2 usage by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron impacts infectivity and fusogenicity

B Meng, A Abdullahi, IATM Ferreira, N Goonawardane… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1 variant emerged in 2021 and has multiple
mutations in its spike protein. Here we show that the spike protein of Omicron has a higher …

Human organoids: model systems for human biology and medicine

J Kim, BK Koo, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The historical reliance of biological research on the use of animal models has sometimes
made it challenging to address questions that are specific to the understanding of human …

Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human gut enterocytes

MM Lamers, J Beumer, J van der Vaart, K Knoops… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can cause coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), an influenza-like disease that is primarily thought to infect the …

Amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 with CRISPR-Cas13a and mobile phone microscopy

P Fozouni, S Son, MD de León Derby, GJ Knott… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The December 2019 outbreak of a novel respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2, has become an
ongoing global pandemic due in part to the challenge of identifying symptomatic …

FXR inhibition may protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection by reducing ACE2

T Brevini, M Maes, GJ Webb, BV John, CD Fuchs… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection by modulating viral host receptors, such as angiotensin-
converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), could represent a new chemoprophylactic approach for …

Transmission, infectivity, and neutralization of a spike L452R SARS-CoV-2 variant

X Deng, MA Garcia-Knight, MM Khalid, V Servellita… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
We identified an emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
variant by viral whole-genome sequencing of 2,172 nasal/nasopharyngeal swab samples …

Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis

M Nikolaev, O Mitrofanova, N Broguiere, S Geraldo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Epithelial organoids, such as those derived from stem cells of the intestine, have great
potential for modelling tissue and disease biology,,–. However, the approaches that are …