Conversion of iPS derived hepatic progenitors into scalable, functional and developmentally relevant human organoids using an inverted colloidal crystal poly (ethylene glycol) scaffold engineered from collagen-coated pores of defined size
Soon Seng Ng, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Joe M Segal, Maria Paola Serra, Samuel J I Blackford, Marta Horcas Lopez, Da Yoon No, Curtis W Frank, Nam Joon Cho, Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Jeffrey S Glenn, S Tamir Rashid
This paper develops a bioengineered scaffold to generate functional human liver organoids from iPSCs, showing improved morphology, gene expression, and functionality compared to 2D and 3D controls.
bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2018 · PreprintBioengineering