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Vascularizing the brain organoids
Xin-Yao Sun1,2 , Zhen-Ge Luo1,*
1School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
2Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
*Correspondence to:Zhen-Ge Luo , Email:luozhg@shanghaitech.edu.cn
J Mol Cell Biol, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2022, mjac040,  https://doi.org/10.1093/jmcb/mjac040

The recently developed brain organoids are self-organized neural tissues derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) that could recapitulate the architectural and cellular characteristics of certain brain regions. Although brain organoid models have been used in the study of human brain development and neurological diseases, the lack of non-neuronal parts, including vascular structures and immune cells, in the prevailing brain organoid models limits the applications of the system...