Of Mice and Men: Species-Specific Organoid Models of Neocortical Malformation

Publication date: 6 April 2017
Source:Cell Stem Cell, Volume 20, Issue 4
Author(s): Jesse J. Dunnack, Joseph J. LoTurco
Cellular changes underlying malformations of human cortical development may be difficult to identify with traditional mouse models. Two recent Cell Stem Cell papers, Li et al. (2017) and Bershteyn et al. (2017), use human cerebral organoids to identify specific cellular defects in neurogenesis that may explain PTEN-related macrocephaly and Miller-Dieker lissencephaly.

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Cellular changes underlying malformations of human cortical development may be difficult to identify with traditional mouse models. Two recent Cell Stem Cell papers, Li et al. (2017) and Bershteyn et al. (2017), use human cerebral organoids to identify specific cellular defects in neurogenesis that may explain PTEN-related macrocephaly and Miller-Dieker lissencephaly.


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