Nervous system

Sneha B. Rao, Zhixiong Sun, Francesco Brundu, et al. Aberrant pace of cortical neuron development in brain organoids from patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome-associated schizophrenia. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1):6986. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62187-x

Alexander G. Bury, Alicja Olejnik, Chiara Tocco, et al. Investigating the ageing-Parkinson’s disease nexus: standardisation of in vitro models and techniques by the PD-AGE network. npj Parkinson’s Disease. 2025;11(1):289. doi:10.1038/s41531-025-01137-2

Deepti Lall, Michael J. Workman, Samuel Sances, et al. An organ-chip model of sporadic ALS using iPSC-derived spinal cord motor neurons and an integrated blood-brain-like barrier. Cell Stem Cell. 2025;32(7):1139-1153.e7. doi:10.1016/j.stem.2025.05.015

Anannya Kshirsagar, Hayk Mnatsakanyan, Sai Kulkarni, et al. Multi-Region Brain Organoids Integrating Cerebral, Mid-Hindbrain, and Endothelial Systems. Advanced Science. 2025;12(33):e03768. doi:10.1002/advs.202503768

Alice E. Stanton, Adele Bubnys, Emre Agbas, et al. Engineered 3D immuno-glial-neurovascular human miBrain model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2025;122(42):e2511596122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2511596122

Kaveena Autar, Xiufang Guo, Haley Powell, et al. Developing a functional non-animal CNS stress model utilizing long-term potentiation with human iPSC-cortical neurons to evaluate therapeutics. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 2025;192:118556. doi:10.1016/j.biopha.2025.118556

Dowlette-Mary Alam El Din, Leah Moenkemoeller, Alon Loeffler, et al. Human neural organoid microphysiological systems show the building blocks necessary for basic learning and memory. Communications Biology. 2025;8(1):1237. doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08632-5

Dowlette-Mary Alam El Din, Leah Moenkemoeller, Alon Loeffler, et al. Human neural organoid microphysiological systems show the building blocks necessary for basic learning and memory. Communications Biology. 2025;8(1):1237. doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08632-5

Kai Cheng, Autumn Williams, Anannya Kshirsagar, et al. Machine learning-enabled detection of electrophysiological signatures in iPSC-derived models of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. APL Bioengineering. 2025;9(3):036118. doi:10.1063/5.0250559

Catarina M. Gomes, Daniel Simão, Carolina Cardoso Gonçalves, et al. Addressing neuroinflammation in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived central nervous system neurospheroids. iScience. 2025;28(9). doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.113246