[Development] The authors combined chimera titration assays with mathematical modelling to study mechanisms of host cell displacement.

[RSC Advances] Researchers developed a gold nanorod-embedded gelatin-methacrylate hydrogel scaffold seeded with hiPSC-cardiomyocytes and hiPSC-derived cardiac fibroblasts

[Nucleic Acids Research] Investigators showed that N-acetyltransferase 10 (Nat10) maintains the pluripotent state and suppresses the 2C-like state in mESCs through mRNA modification and stabilization.

[Science China Life Sciences] Scientists performed RNA sequencing and identified differential alternative splicing events in 784 genes between naïve and primed hESCs.

[Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences] An in vitro model was used to elucidate the effects of E-cadherin complexes on definitive endoderm-directed differentiation of hESCs, when the cells were seeded on polyacrylamide hydrogels with varied stiffnesses.

[Stem Cell Research & Therapy] Researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 technique to delete the CHD7 gene in hESCs to generate CHD7 homozygous mutant, heterozygous mutant, and control wild-type cells.

[ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI)] The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) announced that a collection of cells derived from ALS patient-derived iPSC lines will now be made widely available to researchers around the world.

[Stem Cell Reports] Investigators summarize current strategies to eliminate tumorigenic hPSCs, most of which target hPSC-specific markers, and critically evaluate the advantages and limitations of each approach.

[Stem Cell Reports] Scientists investigated the role of integrin β1 in regulating naive-like and primed hiPSC states. They found that integrin β1 is active in both in vitro.

[Stem Cell Research & Therapy] The advantages and disadvantages of using exosomes isolated from hESCs, hiPSCs), human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) for therapeutic applications are further discussed in this review.

[Nature Cell Biology] Scientists showed that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density tunes mitotic spindle architecture. They revealed physical properties of the cytoplasm as a major determinant in organelle size control.

[Nature] Researchers demonstrated that activating killer immunoglobulin-like receptors can recruit natural killer cells to target a pathogen and revealed a potential role for activating immune receptors in controlling malaria infection.