TY - JOUR
T1 - Microfibrous Scaffolds Guide Stem Cell Lumenogenesis and Brain Organoid Engineering
AU - Ritzau-Reid, Kaja I.
AU - Callens, Sebastien J.P.
AU - Xie, Ruoxiao
AU - Cihova, Martina
AU - Reumann, Daniel
AU - Grigsby, Christopher L.
AU - Prados-Martin, Lino
AU - Wang, Richard
AU - Moore, Axel C.
AU - Armstrong, James P.K.
AU - Knoblich, Juergen A.
AU - Stevens, Molly M.
PY - 2023/10/12
Y1 - 2023/10/12
N2 - 3D organoids are widely used as tractable in vitro models capable of elucidating aspects of human development and disease. However, the manual and low-throughput culture methods, coupled with a low reproducibility and geometric heterogeneity, restrict the scope and application of organoid research. Combining expertise from stem cell biology and bioengineering offers a promising approach to address some of these limitations. Here, melt electrospinning writing is used to generate tuneable grid scaffolds that can guide the self-organization of pluripotent stem cells into patterned arrays of embryoid bodies. Grid geometry is shown to be a key determinant of stem cell self-organization, guiding the position and size of emerging lumens via curvature-controlled tissue growth. Two distinct methods for culturing scaffold-grown embryoid bodies into either interconnected or spatially discrete cerebral organoids are reported. These scaffolds provide a high-throughput method to generate, culture, and analyze large numbers of organoids, substantially reducing the time investment and manual labor involved in conventional methods of organoid culture. It is anticipated that this methodological development will open up new opportunities for guiding pluripotent stem cell culture, studying lumenogenesis, and generating large numbers of uniform organoids for high-throughput screening.
AB - 3D organoids are widely used as tractable in vitro models capable of elucidating aspects of human development and disease. However, the manual and low-throughput culture methods, coupled with a low reproducibility and geometric heterogeneity, restrict the scope and application of organoid research. Combining expertise from stem cell biology and bioengineering offers a promising approach to address some of these limitations. Here, melt electrospinning writing is used to generate tuneable grid scaffolds that can guide the self-organization of pluripotent stem cells into patterned arrays of embryoid bodies. Grid geometry is shown to be a key determinant of stem cell self-organization, guiding the position and size of emerging lumens via curvature-controlled tissue growth. Two distinct methods for culturing scaffold-grown embryoid bodies into either interconnected or spatially discrete cerebral organoids are reported. These scaffolds provide a high-throughput method to generate, culture, and analyze large numbers of organoids, substantially reducing the time investment and manual labor involved in conventional methods of organoid culture. It is anticipated that this methodological development will open up new opportunities for guiding pluripotent stem cell culture, studying lumenogenesis, and generating large numbers of uniform organoids for high-throughput screening.
KW - Humans
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Organoids
KW - Pluripotent Stem Cells
KW - Brain
KW - stem cells
KW - lumenogenesis
KW - scaffolds
KW - organoids
KW - bioengineering
KW - melt electrospinning writing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169929343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/adma.202300305
DO - 10.1002/adma.202300305
M3 - Article
C2 - 37572376
SN - 0935-9648
VL - 35
JO - Advanced Materials
JF - Advanced Materials
IS - 41
M1 - 2300305
ER -