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ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology2021

Taming human brain organoids one cell at a time.

Alexander Atamian, Lluís Cordón-Barris, Giorgia Quadrato

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Review in Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Modelling human brain development and disease with organoids.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  12. Unraveling Human Brain Development and Evolution Using Organoid Models.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander AtamianEli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Lluís Cordón-BarrisEli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Giorgia QuadratoEli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Electronic address: giorgia.quadrato@med.usc.edu.
Broad Center · US

Funding

Training in Developmental Biology, Stem Cells and RegenerationT32HD060549 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Gage D Crump · 2011 to 2026
$2.5M
NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD060549
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human brain organoids are self-organizing three-dimensional structures that emerge from human pluripotent stem cells and mimic aspects of the cellular composition and functionality of the developing human brain. Despite their impressive self-organizing capacity, organoids lack the stereotypic structural anatomy of their in vivo counterpart, making conventional analysis techniques underpowered to assess cellular composition and gene network regulation in organoids. Advances in single cell transcriptomics have recently allowed characterization and improvement of organoid protocols, as they continue to evolve, by enabling identification of cell types and states along with their developmental origins. In this review, we summarize recent approaches, progresses and challenges in resolving brain organoid's complexity through single-cell transcriptomics. We then discuss emerging technologies that may complement single-cell RNA sequencing by providing additional readouts of cellular states to generate an organ-level view of developmental processes. Altogether, these integrative technologies will allow monitoring of global gene regulation in thousands of individual cells and will offer an unprecedented opportunity to investigate features of human brain development and disease across multiple cellular modalities and with cell-type resolution.

Indexed as

TranscriptomeBrainCell DifferentiationCell LineageEpendymoglial CellsGene Expression RegulationHumansModels, BiologicalMutationNerve Tissue ProteinsNervous System MalformationsNeural Stem CellsNeuronsOrganoidsPluripotent Stem CellsSequence Analysis, RNANerve Tissue ProteinsCell statesCell typeHuman brain organoidsIntegrative technologiesMultimodalSingle-cell multi-omicsSingle-cell transcriptomics

Identifiers

PMID32718852
PMCPMC11268727
OpenAlexW3044799138

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Registered trials

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