ESC & iPSC News Volume 17.04 | Feb 2 2022

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    Vol. 17.04 – 2 February, 2022
    TOP STORY

    Brahma Safeguards Canalization of Cardiac Mesoderm Differentiation

    Scientists showed that the BRG1/BRM-associated factor chromatin-remodeling complex ATPase gene Brm safeguarded cell identity during directed cardiogenesis of mouse ESCs.
    [Nature]

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    Lima1 Mediates the Pluripotency Control of Membrane Dynamics and Cellular Metabolism

    Researchers characterized the expression pattern and examined the function of Lima1 in mouse embryos and PSC lines.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Generation of the Organotypic Kidney Structure by Integrating Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Renal Stroma

    By elucidating the in vivo molecular features of the renal stromal lineage at a single-cell resolution level, investigators established an in vitro induction protocol for stromal progenitors from mouse PSCs.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Mouse Culture and Tissue Aging Captured by an Epigenetic Clock

    By developing a measure that tracked cellular aging in vitro, scientists tested whether it tracked physiological aging in various mouse tissues and whether anti-aging interventions modulate this measure.
    [Aging Cell]

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    YAP1 Regulates the Self-Organized Fate Patterning of hESC-Derived Gastruloids

    Investigators interrogated the contribution of the Hippo signaling effector YAP1 to the formation of the three germ layers by analyzing human ESC-derived 2D-micropatterned gastruloids.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Human iPSC Model Reveals a Central Role for NOX4 and Oxidative Stress in Duchenne Cardiomyopathy

    The authors used Duchenne muscular dystrophy-patient-specific human iPSCs to model cardiomyopathic features and unravel novel pathologic insights.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Improved and Flexible HDR Editing by Targeting Introns in iPSCs

    The presence of artificial introns, particularly an intron that carried an enhancer element, significantly increased the reporter expression levels in iPSCs compared to the intron-deleted control.
    [Stem Cell Reviews and Reports]

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    Inducible Caspase-9 Suicide Gene under Control of Endogenous OCT4 to Safeguard Mouse and Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy

    Scientists inserted iCasp9 gene into the endogenous OCT4 locus of human and mouse PSCs without affecting their pluripotency. A chemical inducer of dimerization, AP1903, induced iCasp9 activation, which led to the apoptosis of specific undifferentiated PSCs in vitro and in vivo.
    [Molecular Therapy-Methods & Clinical Development]

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    Accelerated Embryonic Stem Cell Screening with a Highly Efficient Genotyping Pipeline

    Researchers optimized and functionally linked magnetic activated cell sorting technology as well as multiplex droplet digital PCR to their ESC screening process to achieve a greater than 60% assurance that ESC clones were correctly targeted.
    [Molecular Biology Reports]

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    Human iPSC-Derived Neural Models for Studying Alzheimer’s Disease: From Neural Stem Cells to Cerebral Organoids

    The authors summarize currently used differentiation strategies of iPSCs towards neuronal and glial cell types and cerebral organoids and their utilization in modeling Alzheimer’s disease and potential drug discovery.
    [Stem Cell Reviews and Reports]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Luxembourg Students to Send “Mini Brains” to the ISS

    The ISS will include an experiment by five students from the Luxembourg Center of System Biomedicine at Belval, who have been growing so-called “organoids”, mini brains that will be able to grow in micro gravity and thus help advance research in the fight against Parkinson’s disease.
    [RTL Luxembourg]

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