ESC & iPSC News Volume 15.26 | Jul 15 2020

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    Genome-Wide Studies Reveal the Essential and Opposite Roles of ARID1A in Controlling Human Cardiogenesis and Neurogenesis from Pluripotent Stem Cells

    The authors report ARID1A, a DNA-binding subunit of the SWI/SNF epigenetic complex, controlled both neurogenesis and cardiogenesis from human embryonic stem cells through distinct mechanisms.
    [Genome Biology]

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    Modeling Type 1 Diabetes In Vitro Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Investigators describe an in vitro platform that modeled features of human type 1 diabetes using stress-induced patient-derived endocrine cells and autologous immune cells.
    [Cell Reports]

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    DNMT3B Deficiency Alters Mitochondrial Biogenesis and α‐Ketoglutarate Levels in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    To gain insight how the metabolic fluxes in pluripotent stem cells could be influenced by inactivating mutations in epigenetic enzymes, the authors generated human embryonic stem cells deficient for de novo DNA methyltransferases 3A and 3B.
    [Stem Cells]

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    Rad50 Mediates DNA Demethylation to Establish Pluripotent Reprogramming

    Researchers found that Rad50 was highly expressed in pluripotent stem cells and that Rad50 regulated global DNA demethylation levels.
    [Experimental and Molecular Medicine]

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    Precision Installation of a Highly Efficient Suicide Gene Safety Switch in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Investigators report that the commonly used EF1α promoter was silenced in induced pluripotent stem cells, and that the endogenous promoter of the PPP1R12C gene was not strong enough to drive high levels of inducible caspase‐9 expression.
    [Stem Cells Translational Medicine]

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    Zoxazolamine-Induced Stimulation of Cardiomyogenesis from Embryonic Stem Cells Is Mediated by Ca2+, Nitric Oxide and ATP Release

    Researchers analysed whether prolonged activation of Ca2+-activated potassium channels by zoxazolamine induces differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells towards cardiomyocytes.
    [Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research]

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    PRDM14-CtBP1/2-PRC2 Complex Regulates Transcriptional Repression during Transition from Primed to Naïve Pluripotency

    The loss of C-terminal binding protein 1/2 Ctbp1/2 impaired the PRDM14-mediated transcriptional repression required for pluripotency maintenance and transition from primed to naïve pluripotency.
    [Journal of Cell Science]

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    BEaTS-α an Open Access 3D Printed Device for In Vitro Electromechanical Stimulation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Scientists assessed the capabilities of an open access device to support cardiac myocytes derived from human iPSCs, confirming that cells cultured under electromechanical stimulation presented a defined/mature cardiomyocyte phenotype.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    REVIEWS

    Generation of Cerebral Cortical GABAergic Interneurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells

    The authors discuss recent progress in understanding how interneuron subtypes are generated in vivo, and how that progress is being applied to the generation of rodent and human cortical interneurons in vitro.
    [Stem Cells]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Fate Therapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for First-Ever iPSC-derived CAR T-Cell Therapy

    Fate Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the FDA has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug application for FT819, an off-the-shelf allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy targeting CD19+ malignancies.
    [Fate Therapeutics, Inc.]

    Press Release

    Lineage Cell Therapeutics Provides Update on OPC1 Cell Therapy Program for Spinal Cord Injury

    Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. provided an update on OPC1, the company’s oligodendrocyte progenitor cell therapy for the treatment of acute spinal cord injury.
    [Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.]

    Press Release

    Journals Endorse New Checklist to Clean Up Sloppy Animal Research

    To address the problem of poor reporting, Percie du Sert and a team of researchers have developed a checklist of 10 critical details each animal study needs to report, such as the number of animals used, their sex, whether they were randomly allocated to a test group and control group, and whether the researchers knew which animal was in which group.
    [Science Insider]

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