“…All of the later stage osteogenic markers (e.g., Osx, Ocn, Opn, BSP) suggest that skeletal development process was successfully recapitulated and led to the formation of mature osteoblasts and osteocytes. During the second and third week of 3-D osteo-differentiatiation CNCCs demonstrate the expression of i) OSX, a bone-specific transcription factor that is specifically expressed in osteoblasts of all skeletal elements [41], ii) OCN, an osteoblastderived hormone expressed only in fully differentiated osteoblasts and osteocytes, iii) OPN, a late osteogenic protein that regulates the biomineralization and boneremodelling [42,43] and iv) BSP, a non-collagenous protein that is a key component of the bone extracellular matrix [44,45] (Figure 3E, F, Figure 4B, C, E, F, G and Supplementary Figure 2). The formation of mature bone tissue is further characterized by the mineralization in terms of hydroxyapatite deposition in the newly formed extracellular matrix [46].…”