“…For example, by understanding that WNT signaling is important for maintaining intestinal stem cell (ISC) homeostasis (Muncan et al, 2006;Pinto et al, 2003;Sansom et al, 2004), that blockade of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signaling by NOGGIN (NOG) promotes ectopic crypt formation (Haramis et al, 2004), and that Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) is a potent stimulator of proliferation (Goodlad et al, 1987;Ulshen et al, 1986), it was determined that WNTs, RSPON-DINs (RSPOs), NOG, and EGF can be utilized to expand and main-tain ISCs in culture as three-dimensional intestinal organoids (Ootani et al, 2009;Sato et al, 2009Sato et al, , 2011b. This information has been leveraged to expand and culture human pluripotent stem cell-derived intestinal organoids in vitro (Capeling et al, 2020;Finkbeiner et al, 2015;Spence et al, 2011;Wells and Spence, 2014).…”