Reliability of human cortical organoid generation.

Yoon, Se-Jin; Elahi, Lubayna S; Pașca, Anca M; Marton, Rebecca M; Gordon, Aaron; Revah, Omer; Miura, Yuki; Walczak, Elisabeth M et al. · Nat Methods · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The differentiation of pluripotent stem cells in three-dimensional cultures can recapitulate key aspects of brain development, but protocols are prone to variable results. Here we differentiated multiple human pluripotent stem cell lines for over 100 d using our previously developed approach to generate brain-region-specific organoids called cortical spheroids and, using several assays, found that spheroid generation was highly reliable and consistent. We anticipate the use of this approach for large-scale differentiation experiments and disease modeling.

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