Genetics of human brain development

Y Zhou, H Song, G Ming - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Brain development in humans is achieved through precise spatiotemporal genetic control,
the mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. Recently, integration of technological …

Modelling human brain development and disease with organoids

M Birtele, M Lancaster, G Quadrato - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Organoids are systems derived from pluripotent stem cells at the interface between
traditional monolayer cultures and in vivo animal models. The structural and functional …

Population-scale single-cell RNA-seq profiling across dopaminergic neuron differentiation

J Jerber, DD Seaton, ASE Cuomo, N Kumasaka… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Studying the function of common genetic variants in primary human tissues and during
development is challenging. To address this, we use an efficient multiplexing strategy to …

Schizophrenia genomics: genetic complexity and functional insights

PF Sullivan, S Yao, J Hjerling-Leffler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Determining the causes of schizophrenia has been a notoriously intractable problem,
resistant to a multitude of investigative approaches over centuries. In recent decades …

3D bioprinting of neural tissues

M Cadena, L Ning, A King, B Hwang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The human nervous system is a remarkably complex physiological network that is inherently
challenging to study because of obstacles to acquiring primary samples. Animal models …

A beginner's guide on the use of brain organoids for neuroscientists: a systematic review

LA Mulder, JA Depla, A Sridhar, K Wolthers… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Background The first human brain organoid protocol was presented in the beginning of the
previous decade, and since then, the field witnessed the development of many new brain …

Transcriptomic landscape and functional characterization of induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cerebral organoids in schizophrenia

A Kathuria, K Lopez-Lengowski, SS Jagtap… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Three-dimensional cerebral organoids generated from patient-derived induced
pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) may be used to interrogate cellular-molecular underpinnings …

Brain organoid formation on decellularized porcine brain ECM hydrogels

R Simsa, T Rothenbücher, H Gürbüz, N Ghosheh… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Human brain tissue models such as cerebral organoids are essential tools for
developmental and biomedical research. Current methods to generate cerebral organoids …

Aiding and abetting anhedonia: Impact of inflammation on the brain and pharmacological implications

MJ Lucido, M Bekhbat, DR Goldsmith… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exogenous administration of inflammatory stimuli to humans and laboratory animals and
chronic endogenous inflammatory states lead to motivational deficits and ultimately …

Stem cells, genome editing, and the path to translational medicine

F Soldner, R Jaenisch - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The derivation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and the stunning discovery that
somatic cells can be reprogrammed into human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) …