“…These studies highlighted the concept of self-organization (see Section 1 , Section 5.2 and Section 7 for additional information) as the mechanistic foundation explaining in vitro formation of 3D biological structures [ 7 ]. For comparisons, the procedures to generate retinal and eye organoids of various complexity [ 105 , 110 , 111 , 126 , 129 , 131 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 156 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 160 , 161 , 162 ] are listed in Table 1 , as they are important for human eye disease modeling (see Section 6 ).…”