Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.008
Kevin M. Waters, Akil Merchant, De-Chen Lin
{"title":"Unmasking cancer’s hidden nerve route with patient-derived organoids","authors":"Kevin M. Waters, Akil Merchant, De-Chen Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"Chan et al.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> show that enteric neurons influence lipid metabolism in gastric cancer organoids, affecting dependencies on key enzymes. Using CRISPR screening and metabolic analysis, their work highlights how microenvironmental signals impact tumor metabolism and potential treatment targets in gastric cancer.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.005
Giorgia Tosoni, Evgenia Salta
{"title":"Mind, mood and new neurons: Probing adult hippocampal neurogenesis in neuropsychiatry and beyond","authors":"Giorgia Tosoni, Evgenia Salta","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue of <em>Cell Stem Cell</em>, Márquez-Valadez, Gallardo-Caballero, and Llorens-Martín<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> report that adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) is differentially disrupted in neuropsychiatric disorders. Their findings highlight the role of the neurogenic niche and lifestyle, supporting the view of human AHN as a dynamic process sensitive to biology and behavior.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stem cell research in space: Advancing regenerative medicine beyond Earth","authors":"Maedeh Mozneb, Madelyn Arzt, Jemima Moses, Sean Escopete, Lauren Wiegand, Arun Sharma","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"Spaceflight provides a unique environment that profoundly influences stem cell biology. Experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and in simulated microgravity have revealed altered stem cell proliferation, differentiation, and stress responses, unveiling possibilities for modeling impacts of spaceflight and harnessing microgravity for biomanufacturing. Stem cell-derived organoids and tissue models flown in space are yielding insights into development, disease, and aging mechanisms, while in-space biomanufacturing efforts demonstrate accelerated stem cell expansion and tissue formation for potential translational and clinical applications. Finally, as humanity prepares for long-duration lunar and Martian missions, space-based stem cell research offers transformative biomedical applications but also raises new technical, regulatory, workforce development, and ethical challenges.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"157 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.002
{"title":"Raising the bar for human post-implantation embryo models","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"The generation of stem-cell-based embryo models has ushered in a new era for human embryology, but improving their reproducibility and lineage fidelit…","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.016
Zekun Wu, Hongan Ren, Leqian Yu
{"title":"Building the start: Unlocking advanced stem cell-based embryo models","authors":"Zekun Wu, Hongan Ren, Leqian Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.016","url":null,"abstract":"Two recent studies from the Silva and Hanna groups optimized chemical induction and culture conditions to derive extraembryonic lineages directly from embryonic stem cells (ESCs) without transgenes, enabling mouse stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) to reproducibly advance to the E8.5–E8.75 stage.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.004
Muzhen Qiao, Peng Jiang
{"title":"From sentinels to engineers: The future of microglia in brain regeneration","authors":"Muzhen Qiao, Peng Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies highlight microglial replacement as a promising therapeutic approach for neurological disease. Wu et al.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> demonstrated that transplanted bone marrow-derived cells halted ALSP progression, while Mader et al.<span><span><sup>2</sup></span></span> introduced a strategy that avoids systemic bone marrow ablation toxicity and reduces immune rejection, collectively validating this strategy’s therapeutic potential.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.003
Jonathan Levinsohn, Katalin Susztak
{"title":"From form to function: New heights in kidney organoids","authors":"Jonathan Levinsohn, Katalin Susztak","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue of <em>Cell Stem Cell</em>, Huang et al.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> address the challenge of creating organoids that more closely replicate kidney spatial patterning and function. They develop region-specific progenitor assembloids mimicking native architecture. After transplantation into mice, which further promotes differentiation, they demonstrate functional and disease modeling capability.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.010
Fei Fang, Yang Xiao, Elazar Zelzer, Kam W. Leong, Stavros Thomopoulos
{"title":"A mineralizing pool of Gli1-expressing progenitors builds the tendon enthesis and demonstrates therapeutic potential","authors":"Fei Fang, Yang Xiao, Elazar Zelzer, Kam W. Leong, Stavros Thomopoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.09.010","url":null,"abstract":"(Cell Stem Cell <em>29</em>, 1669–1684.e1–e6; December 1, 2022)","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145189391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Targeting lysozyme 2 in endocardium promotes rapid recovery by modulating remote injury signals","authors":"Chenghao Fan, Shen Song, Yu Han, Dongcheng Cai, Anteng Shi, Fangfang Wan, Jie Feng, Jiajun Zhong, Yifan Xie, Fei Xu, Jiangping Song, Shengshou Hu, Yu Nie, Hui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.015","url":null,"abstract":"Adult mammalian hearts are non-regenerative, and a majority of studies examining repair and potential regeneration post-myocardial infarction (MI) have focused on cardiomyocyte (CM) proliferation and infarcted zones. Here, we observed aberrantly high expression of lysozyme 2 (<em>Lyz2</em>) in injured mouse hearts at both local injury sites and at remote zones, with sustained <em>Lyz2</em> expression conspicuous in endocardial cells of non-regenerative hearts. Although traditionally conceptualized as a myeloid marker, we demonstrate that LYZ2 functions as an injury-specific, positive regulator of lysosomal degradation capacity that mediates pathogenic degradation of the extracellular matrix. We observed an anti-apoptotic benefit to CMs upon disrupting LYZ2/LYZ function in mice and in a human endomyocardium experimental model. Harnessing these insights, we show that both <em>Lyz2</em> knockout (KO) and pharmacological inhibition of lysosomal degradation confer rapid functional recovery in injured non-regenerative hearts. Thus, targeting a remote injury response in a non-CM cell type rapidly promotes post-MI recovery of non-regenerative hearts.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell stem cellPub Date : 2025-09-17DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.013
Biao Huang, Pedro Medina, Jincan He, Zipeng Zeng, Sunghyun Kim, Janet Romo, Kari Koppitch, Chennan C. Zhang, Georgina Gyarmati, Yohan Park, Ruslan Bohovyk, Pierre-Emmanuel Yoann N’Guetta, Jinjin Guo, Tianyi Ma, Megan E. Schreiber, Cong Xu, Jessica Pham, Riana K. Parvez, Jackson Su, Mateo W. Xia, Zhongwei Li
{"title":"Spatially patterned kidney assembloids recapitulate progenitor self-assembly and enable high-fidelity in vivo disease modeling","authors":"Biao Huang, Pedro Medina, Jincan He, Zipeng Zeng, Sunghyun Kim, Janet Romo, Kari Koppitch, Chennan C. Zhang, Georgina Gyarmati, Yohan Park, Ruslan Bohovyk, Pierre-Emmanuel Yoann N’Guetta, Jinjin Guo, Tianyi Ma, Megan E. Schreiber, Cong Xu, Jessica Pham, Riana K. Parvez, Jackson Su, Mateo W. Xia, Zhongwei Li","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.08.013","url":null,"abstract":"Current kidney organoids do not recapitulate the kidney’s complex spatial patterning and function, limiting their applications. The human kidney comprises one million nephrons, derived from nephron progenitor cells, that connect to an arborized ureteric progenitor cell-derived collecting system. Here, we develop spatially organized mouse and human kidney progenitor assembloid (KPA) models in which the nephrons undergo extensive development and fuse to a centrally located collecting system, recapitulating kidney progenitor self-assembly processes observed <em>in vivo</em>. KPAs show dramatically improved cellular complexity and maturity and exhibit several aspects of major kidney functions <em>in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em>. Modeling human autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) with genome-edited, <em>in vivo</em>-grown human KPAs recapitulated the cystic phenotype and the molecular and cellular hallmarks of the disease and highlighted the crosstalk among cyst epithelium, stroma, and macrophages. The KPA platform opens new avenues for high-fidelity disease modeling and lays a strong foundation for kidney regenerative medicine.","PeriodicalId":9665,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}