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Engineering regional diversity: A morphogen screen for patterned brain organoids
Georgia Panagiotakos1, Nan Yang2
1Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Alper Center for Neurodevelopment and Regeneration, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Morphogens orchestrate cellular diversity during nervous system development, yet a systematic approach to harnessing these signals in stem cell differentiation remains elusive. Amin et al.1 present a platform integrating parallel morphogen modulator screening with single-cell sequencing of neural organoids, reinforcing brain regionalization principles and enabling detailed cellular annotation.

