ESC & iPSC News Volume 16.34 | Sep 1 2021

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    Vol. 16.34 – 1 September, 2021
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    A Splenic-Targeted Versatile Antigen Courier: iPSC Wrapped in Coalescent Erythrocyte-Liposome as Tumor Nanovaccine

    After wrapping iPSC protein, the nanovaccine iPSC@RBC-Mlipo exhibited obvious splenic accumulation, systemic specific antitumor immunity evocation, and effective tumor expansion and metastasis inhibition in mice.
    [Science Advances]

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    Cortical Organoids Model Early Brain Development Disrupted by 16p11.2 Copy Number Variants in Autism

    Researchers generated cortical organoids from skin fibroblasts of patients with 16p11.2 copy number varient to investigate impacted neurodevelopmental processes and showed that organoid size recapitulated macrocephaly and microcephaly phenotypes observed in the patients with 16p11.2 deletions and duplications.
    [Molecular Psychiatry]

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    The Landscape of Alternative Polyadenylation in Single Cells of the Developing Mouse Embryo

    The authors examined a dataset comprising around 2 million nuclei spanning E9.5–E13.5 of mouse embryonic development to quantify transcriptome-wide changes in alternative polyadenylation.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Self-Assembling Human Heart Organoids for the Modeling of Cardiac Development and Congenital Heart Disease

    Scientists reported a method to generate developmentally relevant human heart organoids by self-assembly using human PSCs. Heart organoids were comparable to age-matched human fetal cardiac tissues at the transcriptomic, structural, and cellular level.
    [Nature Communications]

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    The Conserved Long Noncoding RNA CARMA Regulates Cardiomyocyte Differentiation

    Investigators identified CARdiomyocyte Maturation-Associated lncRNA (CARMA), a conserved long non-coding RNA controlling cardiomyocyte differentiation and maturation in human ESCs.
    [Cardiovascular Research]

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    SOX10 Ablation Severely Impairs the Generation of Postmigratory Neural Crest from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    The exact role of SOX10 in human neural crest development and the underlying molecular mechanisms of SOX10-related human diseases remain poorly understood due to the lack of appropriate human model systems. Researchers successfully generated SOX10-knockout human iPSCs by the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    Modeling HNF1B-Associated Monogenic Diabetes Using Human iPSCs Reveals an Early Stage Impairment of the Pancreatic Developmental Program

    The authors used a well-controlled human iPSC pancreatic differentiation model to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying HNF1B-associated diabetes.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Generation of Pancreatic Progenitors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells by Small Molecules

    Scientists established a robust growth-factor-free protocol for generating definitive endoderm and pancreatic progenitors cells, facilitating scalable production of pancreatic cells for regenerative applications.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Functional Human iPSC-Derived Alveolar-Like Cells Cultured in a Miniaturized 96-Transwell Air–Liquid Interface Model

    Researchers described a unique, miniaturized 96-Transwell microplate system where human pluripotent stem cells-derived alveolar-like cells were cultured at an air–liquid interface.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    High-Content Image-Based Analysis and Proteomic Profiling Identifies Tau Phosphorylation Inhibitors in a Human iPSC-Derived Glutamatergic Neuronal Model of Tauopathy

    Investigators used iPSCs from a patient carrying a p.A152T tau variant to create a robust, functional cellular assay system for probing pathophysiological tau accumulation and phosphorylation.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Modeling Genetic Cardiac Channelopathies Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells – Status Quo from an Electrophysiological Perspective

    The authors discuss patient-specific in vitro models of genetic diseases of the heart based on iPSCs, that address questions surrounding how different variants in the SCN5A gene produce different clinical syndromes.
    [Biochemical Pharmacology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    State Stem Cell Agency Funds Three New UC San Diego Projects

    The governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has approved a trio of awards, totaling approximately $4 million, to University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers to advance studies of new stem cell-based treatments for multiple types of cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
    [UC San Diego Health]

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