Clinical and Translational Medicine (Dec 2023)

Organoid assessment technologies

  • Yuyuan Gu,
  • Wencai Zhang,
  • Xianmin Wu,
  • Yuanwei Zhang,
  • Ke Xu,
  • Jiacan Su

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1499
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 12
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Despite enormous advances in the generation of organoids, robust and stable protocols of organoids are still a major challenge to researchers. Research for assessing structures of organoids and the evaluations of their functions on in vitro or in vivo is often limited by precision strategies. A growing interest in assessing organoids has arisen, aimed at standardizing the process of obtaining organoids to accurately resemble human‐derived tissue. The complex microenvironment of organoids, intricate cellular crosstalk, organ‐specific architectures and further complicate functions urgently quest for high‐through schemes. By utilizing multi‐omics analysis and single‐cell analysis, cell‐cell interaction mechanisms can be deciphered, and their structures can be investigated in a detailed view by histological analysis. In this review, we will conclude the novel approaches to study the molecular mechanism and cell heterogeneity of organoids and discuss the histological and morphological similarity of organoids in comparison to the human body. Future perspectives on functional analysis will be developed and the organoids will become mature models.