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Sources 2026

"Generation and characterization of vestibular inner ear organoids from human pluripotent stem cells"

PDF: raw/sources/vandervalk 2025 generation and characterization of vestibular.pdf Article: Nature Protocols 21:391 428, Feb 2026

IngestedMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperPopulationSelf-organization and directed patterningTumor / Cancer2026
Sources 2025

CRISPR screens in human neural organoids and assembloids

This paper is best understood as an engineering, imaging, or perturbation protocol layered onto organoid culture for CRISPR screening in neural organoids and assembloids. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it turns neural organoids and assembloids into pooled CRISPR screening systems.

AssembloidBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsGene EditingIngestedOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningPaper2025
Sources 2025

Generating and characterizing human telencephalic brain organoids from stem cell-derived single neural rosettes

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for single rosette telencephalic brain organoid generation and characterization. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it starts from single neural rosettes to tighten telencephalic brain organoid generation.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2025
Sources 2025

Production of human blood-generating heart-forming organoids and sample preparation for advanced imaging

This paper is best understood as an engineering, imaging, or perturbation protocol layered onto organoid culture for blood generating heart forming organoids and advanced imaging. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it extends heart forming organoids toward blood generation and pairs them with scalable clearing and imaging preparation.

Cardiac and hematoendothelial organoidsHeartIngestedMulti-lineage and tissue complexityOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningPaper2025
Sources 2024

"An integrated transcriptomic cell atlas of human neural organoids"

PDF: raw/sources/he 2024 an integrated transcriptomic cell atlas.pdf Article: Nature

AssembloidBenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaper
Sources 2024

Generating human bone marrow organoids for disease modeling and drug discovery

This paper is best understood as a multi lineage developmental organoid protocol for bone marrow organoid generation for disease modeling and screening. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it creates a bone marrow niche model with vascular, stromal, and hematopoietic elements.

CocultureIngestedMulti-lineage and tissue complexityOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantation2024
Sources 2024

Generation and long-term culture of human cerebellar organoids from pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for human cerebellar organoid generation and long term culture. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it uses dual SMAD plus WNT and FGF8b patterning to generate cerebellar organoids with both rhombic lip and ventricular zone progenitors and support long term Purkinje cell maturation.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsBrain subregion-specific organoid protocolsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2024

Generation of ‘semi-guided’ cortical organoids with complex neural oscillations

This paper is best understood as an engineering, imaging, or perturbation protocol layered onto organoid culture for semi guided cortical organoids with electrophysiology workflows. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it positions semi guided cortical organoids as a reproducible platform for oscillations, calcium imaging, and MEA readouts.

BrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2024
Sources 2024

Host circuit engagement of human cortical organoids transplanted in rodents

This paper is best understood as a transplantation or host engagement protocol for cortical organoid transplantation and host circuit integration. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it uses transplantation to test whether cortical organoids engage host neural circuits in vivo.

BrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsCocultureIngestedLong-Term MaturationOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantation
Sources 2023

A distal lung organoid model to study interstitial lung disease, viral infection and human lung development

This paper is best understood as a multi lineage developmental organoid protocol for distal lung organoid differentiation and maintenance. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it positions distal lung organoids as a disease, infection, and developmental model in one workflow.

BrainHeartIngestedKidneyLungMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2023

Generation of proximal tubule-enhanced kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for kidney organoid generation with improved proximal tubules. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it optimizes kidney differentiation toward stronger proximal tubule representation.

BenchmarkIngestedKidneyKidney organoid differentiation routesLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2023
Sources 2023

Protocol for generating reproducible miniaturized controlled midbrain organoids

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for miniaturized controlled midbrain organoid generation for screening workflows. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it miniaturizes midbrain organoids into controlled, necrosis limited units that are compatible with higher throughput screening.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsBrain subregion-specific organoid protocolsIngestedLong-Term MaturationOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningPaper
Sources 2022

"Functional, metabolic and transcriptional maturation of human pancreatic islets derived from stem cells"

PDF: raw/sources/balboa 2022 functional metabolic and transcriptional.pdf Article: Nature Biotechnology

BenchmarkBrainColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPancreas / Biliary
Sources 2022

Generation and characterization of hair-bearing skin organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a multi lineage developmental organoid protocol for hair bearing skin organoid generation and characterization. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it builds skin organoids with appendages and sensory features rather than a simple epithelial sheet.

IngestedMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperPopulationSelf-organization and directed patterningSingle Cell2022
Sources 2022

Transplantation of intestinal organoids into a mouse model of colitis

This paper is best understood as a transplantation or host engagement protocol for intestinal organoid transplantation in colitis repair model. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it moves intestinal organoids into an in vivo repair context using a colitis model.

CocultureColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedLong-Term MaturationOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantation
Sources 2021

"Generation of insulin-producing pancreatic β cells from multiple human stem cell lines"

PDF: raw/sources/hogrebe 2021 generation of insulin producing pancreatic.pdf Article: Nature Protocols

BenchmarkColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPancreas / BiliaryPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2021

"Human sensorimotor organoids derived from healthy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis stem cells form neuromuscular junctions"

PDF: raw/sources/pereira 2021 human sensorimotor organoids derived.pdf Article: Nature Communications

BrainCocultureGene EditingHeartIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculture
Sources 2021

A robust protocol for the generation of human midbrain organoids

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for robust human midbrain organoid generation from neuroepithelial stem cells. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it derives midbrain organoids from patterned neuroepithelial stem cells with reproducible dopaminergic and glial composition.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsBrain subregion-specific organoid protocolsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2021

Controlling the polarity of human gastrointestinal organoids to investigate epithelial biology and infectious diseases

This paper is best understood as a functional assay extension layered onto organoid culture for polarity control for gastrointestinal and colon organoid experiments. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it re engineers epithelial polarity so apical biology becomes experimentally accessible.

CocultureColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantation2021
Sources 2021

Engineering human hepato-biliary-pancreatic organoids from pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a multi lineage developmental organoid protocol for multi lineage hepato biliary pancreatic organoid engineering. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it models a foregut midgut boundary by fusing anterior and posterior spheroids into a hepato biliary pancreatic organoid.

Colon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPancreas / BiliaryPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2021
Sources 2021

Generation and long-term culture of advanced cerebral organoids for studying later stages of neural development

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for advanced long term cerebral organoid culture. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it pushes cerebral organoids toward later stage neural development and longer maturation windows.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2021

Generation of caudal-type serotonin neurons and hindbrain-fate organoids from hPSCs

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for caudal hindbrain organoid generation with serotonin neuron enrichment. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it patterns ventral hindbrain progenitors toward caudal serotonin neurons and adapts the system into hindbrain like organoids.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsBrain subregion-specific organoid protocolsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2021

Generation of heart-forming organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a multi lineage developmental organoid protocol for heart forming organoid generation from hPSCs. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it captures early cardiac morphogenesis in a structured heart forming organoid model.

Cardiac and hematoendothelial organoidsHeartIngestedMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2021
Sources 2021

Intestinal organoid cocultures with microbes

This paper is best understood as a functional assay extension layered onto organoid culture for colon and intestinal organoid microbial coculture workflows. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it adds lumenal microinjection, 2D exposure, and microbial viability workflows to intestinal organoids.

CocultureColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantation2021
Sources 2021

Long-term culture, genetic manipulation and xenotransplantation of human normal and breast cancer organoids

This paper is best understood as an engineering, imaging, or perturbation protocol layered onto organoid culture for breast organoid derivation, engineering, and xenotransplantation. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it extends breast organoids into long term culture, genetic manipulation, and xenotransplantation.

Adult stem cell and patient-derived organoid platformsBreastClinicalCocultureIngestedLong-Term MaturationOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculture
Sources 2020

"Cell stress in cortical organoids impairs molecular subtype specification"

PDF: raw/sources/bhaduri 2020 cell stress in cortical.pdf Article: Nature

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsCocultureIngestedLong-Term MaturationOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaper
Sources 2020

Brainstem Organoids From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for brainstem organoid generation with midbrain and hindbrain progenitors. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it builds a brainstem organoid workflow that combines midbrain and hindbrain progenitors with dopaminergic, noradrenergic, cholinergic, and neural crest linked populations.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsBrain subregion-specific organoid protocolsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2020

Establishment of human fetal hepatocyte organoids and CRISPR-Cas9-based gene knockin and knockout in organoid cultures from human liver

This paper is best understood as an engineering, imaging, or perturbation protocol layered onto organoid culture for liver organoid establishment plus CRISPR editing. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it combines liver organoid establishment with knockin and knockout workflows.

Adult stem cell and patient-derived organoid platformsClinicalGene EditingIngestedLiverOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningPaper2020
Sources 2020

Establishment of patient-derived cancer organoids for drug-screening applications

This paper is best understood as a primary tissue or patient derived organoid culture protocol for patient derived cancer organoids for screening. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it focuses on robust establishment of patient derived cancer organoids for downstream drug screening workflows.

Adult stem cell and patient-derived organoid platformsClinicalCocultureIngestedOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantationTumor / Cancer
Sources 2020

Human iPSC-Derived Hippocampal Spheroids: An Innovative Tool for Stratifying Alzheimer Disease Patient-Specific Cellular Phenotypes and Developing Therapies

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for hippocampal spheroid generation from hiPSCs for disease modeling. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it creates free floating hippocampal spheroids from human iPSCs that preserve hippocampal marker identity and support early Alzheimer related phenotype readouts.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsBrain subregion-specific organoid protocolsClinicalIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaper
Sources 2019

"Engineering of human brain organoids with a functional vascular-like system"

PDF: raw/sources/cakir 2019 engineering of human brain.pdf Article: Nature Methods

BrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsCocultureIngestedKidneyLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screening
Sources 2019

"Flow-enhanced vascularization and maturation of kidney organoids in vitro"

PDF: raw/sources/homan 2019 flow enhanced vascularization and maturation.pdf Article: Nature Methods

BrainIngestedKidneyKidney organoid differentiation routesLong-Term MaturationLungMulti-lineage and tissue complexityOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screening
Sources 2019

"Generation of blood vessel organoids from human pluripotent stem cells"

PDF: raw/sources/wimmer 2019 generation of blood vessel organoids.pdf Article: Nature Protocols

AssembloidBrainCocultureIngestedKidneyLong-Term MaturationLungMulti-lineage and tissue complexity
Sources 2019

"Generation of complex human organoid models including vascular networks by incorporation of mesodermal progenitor cells"

PDF: raw/sources/worsdorfer 2019 generation of complex human organoid.pdf Article: Scientific Reports

BrainCocultureIngestedKidneyMulti-lineage and tissue complexityOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaper
Sources 2019

"Individual brain organoids reproducibly form cell diversity of the human cerebral cortex"

PDF: raw/sources/velasco 2019 individual brain organoids reproducibly.pdf Article: Nature

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperPopulationSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2019

"Organoid single-cell genomic atlas uncovers human-specific features of brain development"

PDF: raw/sources/kanton 2019 organoid single cell genomic atlas.pdf Article: Nature

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperPopulation
Sources 2019

"Reliability of human cortical organoid generation"

PDF: raw/sources/yoon 2019 reliability of human cortical.pdf Article: Nature Methods

AssembloidBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterningSingle Cell
Sources 2019

Generation of lung organoids from human pluripotent stem cells in vitro

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for foundational lung organoid generation from hPSCs. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it offers a baseline pluripotent stem cell route into lung organoid generation.

BenchmarkIngestedLong-Term MaturationLungMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2019
Sources 2019

Tumor organoid-T-cell coculture systems

This paper is best understood as a functional assay extension layered onto organoid culture for tumor organoid immune coculture workflow. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it turns tumor organoids into an immune interaction assay by adding T cell coculture workflows.

Adult stem cell and patient-derived organoid platformsClinicalCocultureIngestedOrganoid functional assays, transplantation, and coculturePaperTransplantationTumor / Cancer
Sources 2018

Generation and assembly of human brain region-specific three-dimensional cultures

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for region specific brain organoids and assembloids. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it builds dorsal and ventral forebrain spheroids and then assembles them to study migration and circuit formation.

AssembloidBenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsClinicalIngestedLong-Term MaturationNeuronal Migration
Sources 2018

Generation of human antral and fundic gastric organoids from pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for gastric antral and fundic organoid generation from hPSCs. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it separates gastric differentiation into antral and fundic trajectories from pluripotent stem cells.

BenchmarkColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2018
Sources 2017

"Generation of inner ear organoids containing functional hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells"

PDF: raw/sources/koehler 2017 generation of inner ear organoids.pdf Article: Nature Biotechnology

Gene EditingHeartIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2017
Sources 2016

Culture and establishment of self-renewing human and mouse adult liver and pancreas 3D organoids and their genetic manipulation

This paper is best understood as an engineering, imaging, or perturbation protocol layered onto organoid culture for adult liver and pancreas organoid culture and genetic manipulation. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it establishes expandable adult liver and pancreas organoids and pairs them with genetic manipulation.

Adult stem cell and patient-derived organoid platformsClinicalColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedLiverOrganoid engineering, imaging, and screeningPancreas / Biliary
Sources 2016

Generation of kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for classic nephron rich kidney organoid protocol. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it details a widely used kidney workflow that brings multiple renal progenitor populations into the same culture.

BenchmarkIngestedKidneyKidney organoid differentiation routesLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2016
Sources 2016

Generation of nephron progenitor cells and kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for high efficiency nephron progenitor and kidney organoid generation. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it prioritizes high efficiency nephron progenitor generation as a cleaner entry into kidney organoid production.

BenchmarkIngestedKidneyKidney organoid differentiation routesLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2016
Sources 2016

Organoid culture systems for prostate epithelial and cancer tissue

This paper is best understood as a primary tissue or patient derived organoid culture protocol for prostate epithelial and cancer organoid establishment. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it shows how healthy and cancer prostate organoids can be expanded from primary material rather than only stem cell differentiation.

Adult stem cell and patient-derived organoid platformsClinicalIngestedPaperProstateTumor / Cancer2016
Sources 2015

"Generation of a ciliary margin-like stem cell niche from self-organizing human retinal tissue"

PDF: raw/sources/kuwahara 2015 generation of a ciliary.pdf Article: Nature Communications

BrainClinicalGene EditingIngestedKidneyLiverLong-Term MaturationLung
Sources 2014

Generation of cerebral organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for foundational cerebral organoid generation from hPSCs. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it establishes the classic unguided cerebral organoid workflow with broad regional self organization.

BenchmarkBrainBrain organoid patterning and assembloidsIngestedLong-Term MaturationMulti-lineage and tissue complexityPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning
Sources 2014

The generation of kidney organoids by differentiation of human pluripotent cells to ureteric bud progenitor-like cells

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for ureteric bud progenitor like route for kidney organoid generation. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it uses a ureteric bud progenitor route and chimeric culture logic rather than a nephron only strategy.

BenchmarkIngestedKidneyKidney organoid differentiation routesLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2014
Sources 2011

Generating human intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells in vitro

This paper is best understood as a stepwise derivation and maturation protocol for foundational intestinal organoid generation from hPSCs. Its main distinctive contribution in this corpus is that it builds a stepwise hPSC to endoderm to mid/hindgut route that turns gut spheroids into intestinal organoids.

BenchmarkColon / IntestineGastrointestinal and endodermal organoid systemsIngestedLong-Term MaturationPaperSelf-organization and directed patterning2011