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Towards an in vitro cardiac model: 3D environment, co-culture, alignment, and mechanical stimulation impact on cell behavior

Our aim is to develop a 3D model unit of cardiac muscle: an in-vitro analog of the trabeculae carneae found in vivo. As a base hydrogel matrix for cardiomyocyte culture in 3D, we develop a blend of decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) and fibrin. Thi ...

EPFL2021

Engineering next generation organoids through guided stem cell self-organisation

Mikhail Nikolaev

One of the long-standing goals in the field of tissue engineering is the fabrication of de novo tissues or even organs to provide better tissue models for basic research and drug discovery, and to alleviate a shortage of donor organs in the future. Researc ...

EPFL2021

The role and transcriptional regulation of FAM46A in adipocyte differentiation

Ann-Kristin Hov

Obesity is currently a leading global health concern. Treatments include undergoing a weight-loss regimen. However, successful weight-loss is variable, where the heritability of obesity is considered part of the cause. This patient variability to weight-lo ...

EPFL2021

Primate-restricted KRAB zinc finger proteins and target retrotransposons control gene expression in human neurons

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Julien Paul André Pontis, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Christopher James Playfoot

In the first days of embryogenesis, transposable element-embedded regulatory sequences (TEeRS) are silenced by Kruppel-associated box (KRAB) zinc finger proteins (KZFPs). Many TEeRS are subsequently co-opted in transcription networks, but how KZFPs influen ...

2020

Hydrogel-based milliwell arrays for standardized and scalable retinal organoid cultures

Matthias Lütolf, Nathalie Brandenberg

The development of improved methods to culture retinal organoids is relevant for the investigation of mechanisms of retinal development under pathophysiological conditions, for screening of neuroprotective compounds, and for providing a cellular source for ...

Nature Research2020

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Traceable Impedance-Based Dispensing and Cloning of Living Single Cells

Philippe Renaud, Yann Barrandon, Ariane Rochat, David Vincent Bonzon, Georges Muller, Stéphanie Claudinot

Single-cell cloning is essential in stem cell biology, cancer research, and biotechnology. Regulatory agencies now require an indisputable proof of clonality that current technologies do not readily provide. Here, we report a one-step cloning method using ...

2020

Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis

Matthias Lütolf, Nathalie Brandenberg, Nicolas Antoine Vincent Broguiere, Nikolche Gjorevski, Yoji Tabata, Mikhail Nikolaev, Olga Mitrofanova, Devanjali Dutta, Sara Filipa Da Silva Geraldo Alves, Bilge Sen Elçi

Epithelial organoids, such as those derived from stem cells of the intestine, have great potential for modelling tissue and disease biology(1-4). However, the approaches that are used at present to derive these organoids in three-dimensional matrices(5,6)r ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Tp63-expressing adult epithelial stem cells cross lineages boundaries revealing latent hairy skin competence

Yann Barrandon, Ariane Rochat, Paola Bonfanti, Stéphanie Claudinot, Christèle Gonneau

The formation of hair follicles, a landmark of mammals, requires complex mesenchymal-epithelial interactions and it is commonly believed that embryonic epidermal cells are the only cells that can respond to hair follicle morphogenetic signals in vivo. Here ...

Nature Research2020