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Record W4409540329 · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2025.03.037

Fate and state transitions during human blood vessel organoid development

2025· article· en· W4409540329 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Marina Nikolova, Zhisong He, Makiko Seimiya, Gustav Jonsson, Wuji Cao, Ryo Okuda, Reiner Wimmer, Ryoko Okamoto, Josef Penninger, J. Gray Camp, Barbara Treutlein

Bibliographic record

VenueCell · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNCCR CatalysisEuropean Research CouncilT. Von Zastrow FoundationBayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und KunstEidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchFundació la Marató de TV3Innovative Medicines InitiativeBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungÖsterreichischen Akademie der WissenschaftenVienna Science and Technology FundSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungCanada Research ChairsChan Zuckerberg InitiativeSilicon Valley Community Foundation
KeywordsBiologyOrganoidMural cellCell fate determinationCell biologyProgenitor cellEndothelial stem cellGene regulatory networkCellTranscription factorNotch signaling pathwayStem cellComputational biologyGeneSignal transductionGene expressionGeneticsIn vitro

Abstract

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Human blood vessel organoids (hBVOs) have emerged as a system to model human vascular development and disease. Here, we use single-cell multi-omics together with genetic and signaling pathway perturbations to reconstruct hBVO development. Mesodermal progenitors bifurcate into endothelial and mural fates in vitro, and xenografted BVOs acquire definitive arteriovenous endothelial cell specification. We infer a gene regulatory network and use single-cell genetic perturbations to identify transcription factors (TFs) and receptors involved in cell fate specification, including a role for MECOM in endothelial and mural specification. We assess the potential of BVOs to generate organotypic states, identify TFs lacking expression in hBVOs, and find that induced LEF1 overexpression increases brain vasculature specificity. Finally, we map vascular disease-associated genes to hBVO cell states and analyze an hBVO model of diabetes. Altogether, we provide a comprehensive cell state atlas of hBVO development and illuminate the power and limitation of hBVOs for translational research.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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