Publications by Matthias Lütolf

Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development

Brain organoids enable the mechanistic study of human brain development and provide opportunities to explore self-organization in unconstrained developmental systems1, 2–3. Here we establish long-term, live light-sheet microscopy on unguided brain organoid ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Establishment of a microwell-array-based miniaturized thymic organoid model suitable for high-throughput applications

Matthias Lütolf, Tania Hübscher

T cell development depends critically on the thymic stroma—in particular, the diverse array of functionally distinct thymic epithelial cell (TEC) types. However, a robust in vitro thymus model mimicking the native thymus and compatible with medium-/high-th ...

2025

An extracellular matrix niche secreted by epithelial cells drives intestinal organoid formation

Matthias Lütolf, Antonius Chrisnandy

Cell Press - Elsevier2025

Spatiotemporal Interrogation of Single Spheroids Using Multiplexed Nanoplasmonic-fluorescence Imaging

Hatice Altug, Matthias Lütolf, Yen-Cheng Liu, Saeid Ansaryan, Luis Francisco Lorenzo Martin

Advances in organoid models, as ex vivo mini-organs, and the development of screening imaging technologies have continuously driven each other forward. A complete understanding of organoids requires detailed insights into the intertwined intraorganoid and ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Accessible homeostatic gastric organoids reveal secondary cell type-specific host-pathogen interactions in Helicobacter pylori infections

Matthias Lütolf, Nicolas Antoine Vincent Broguiere, Moritz Hofer

Despite the high prevalence of gastric diseases like gastric cancer and peptic ulcer disease attributed to Helicobacter pylori infections, there is still only a limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Existing in vitro models are either two-dim ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

An Integrated Transcriptomic Cell Atlas of Human Endoderm-derived Organoids

Matthias Lütolf

Human pluripotent stem cells and tissue-resident fetal and adult stem cells can generate epithelial tissues of endodermal origin in vitro that recapitulate aspects of developing and adult human physiology. Here, we integrate single-cell transcriptomes from ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Bioengineered Tubular Biliary Organoids

Matthias Lütolf, Mikhail Nikolaev, Bilge Sen Elçi, Saba Rezakhani

Liver organoids have emerged as promising in vitro models for toxicology, drug discovery, and disease modeling. However, conventional 3D epithelial organoid culture systems suffer from significant drawbacks, including limited culture duration, a nonphysiol ...

Wiley2024

Open-source microscope add-on for structured illumination microscopy

Theo Lasser, Matthias Lütolf, Aleksandra Radenovic, Andrew Charles Oates, Georg Fantner, John McKinney, Nathan Cyprien Arsène Ronceray, Olivier François Venzin, Antonius Chrisnandy, Prabhu Prasad Swain

Super-resolution techniques expand the abilities of researchers who have the knowledge and resources to either build or purchase a system. This excludes the part of the research community without these capabilities. Here we introduce the openSIM add-on to ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Collagen signaling and matrix stiffness regulate multipotency in glandular epithelial stem cells in mice

Matthias Lütolf, Antonius Chrisnandy, Saba Rezakhani

Glandular epithelia, including mammary gland (MG) and prostate, are composed of luminal and basal cells. During embryonic development, glandular epithelia arise from multipotent stem cells (SCs) that are replaced after birth by unipotent basal and unipoten ...

Nature Research2024

Mini-colons unlock tumour development outside the body

Matthias Lütolf, Luis Francisco Lorenzo Martin

In this Tools of the Trade article, Francisco Lorenzo-Mart & iacute;n and Matthias Lutolf present mini-colons as a new ex vivo cancer model that incorporates microfabrication, tissue engineering and optogenetics. ...

Nature Portfolio2024