ESC & iPSC News Volume 17.09 | Mar 9 2022

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    DNA Replication Fork Speed Underlies Cell Fate Changes and Promotes Reprogramming

    Scientists employed DNA fiber analysis to investigate how PSCs were reprogrammed into totipotent-like 2-cell-like cells (2CLCs) and showed that totipotent cells of the early mouse embryo had slow DNA replication fork speed and that 2CLCs recapitulated this feature.
    [Nature Genetics]

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    Specific Mesoderm Subset Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Ameliorates Microvascular Pathology in Type 2 Diabetic Mice

    Transcriptomic analysis showed that differentiation of hiPSCs derived from diabetics into KDR+CD56+APLNR+ (KNA+) cells was sufficient to change baseline differences in gene expression caused by the diabetic status and reprogram diabetic cells to a pattern similar to KNA+ cells.
    [Science Advances]

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    Doxorubicin Induces Cardiotoxicity in a Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Aggressive B Cell Lymphoma Cancer Patients

    Researchers established an in vitro iPSC model of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity (ACT) from patients with an aggressive form of B cell lymphoma and examined whether doxorubicin-treated ACT-iPSC cardiomyocytes could recapitulate the clinical features exhibited by patients.
    [Basic Research in Cardiology]

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    Meiosis-Specific Cohesin Complexes Display Essential and Distinct Roles in Mitotic Embryonic Stem Cell Chromosomes

    Through high-resolution 3D-structured illumination microscopy and functional analysis, investigators reported multiple biological processes associated with the meiosis-specific cohesin components, α-kleisin REC8 and STAG3, and the distinct loss of function of meiotic cohesin during the cell cycle of ESCs.
    [Genome Biology]

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    Genetic Correction of Concurrent α- and β-Thalassemia Patient-Derived Pluripotent Stem Cells by the CRISPR-Cas9 Technology

    The authors established a new hiPSCs line derived from amniotic cells of a fetus with a homozygous β41-42 deletion mutation in the HBB gene and a heterozygous Westmead mutation in the HBA2 gene. They designed a CRISPR-Cas9 to target these casual mutations and corrected them.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Integrate, Create Synapses and Extend Long Axons after Spinal Cord Injury

    Researchers transplanted cells that were generated from hiPSCs into regionally specific spinal neural progenitor cells utilizing a novel accelerated differentiation protocol designed for clinical translation.
    [Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine]

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    Analysis of Erythropoiesis from Embryonic Stem Cell-CD34+ and Cord Blood-CD34+ Cells Reveal Mechanisms for Defective Expansion and Enucleation of Embryonic Stem Cell-Erythroid Cells

    Investigators found that the limited expansion of ESC CD34+ cell-derived erythroid cells was associated with defective cell cycle of erythroid progenitors.
    [Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine]

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    One-Step Induction of Photoreceptor-Like Cells from Human iPSCs by Delivering Transcription Factors

    Scientists developed a method to generate photoreceptor cells (PRCs) from human iPSCs by introducing the transcription factors CRX and NEUROD1, which enabled them to generate induced photoreceptor-like cells expressing PRC markers.
    [iScience]

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    Incorporation of a Histone Mutant with H3K56 Site Substitution Perturbs the Replication Machinery in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

    The authors mimicked histone H3 at the 56th lysine (H3K56) mutant incorporation in mESCs by lentivirus-mediated ectopic expression and analyzed the effects on replication and epigenetic regulation.
    [Journal of Molecular Cell Biology]

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    Naïve-Like Pluripotency to Pave the Way for Saving the Northern White Rhinoceros from Extinction

    To rescue the functionally extinct species of the northern white rhinoceros, investigators employed iPSCs to generate gametes and subsequently embryos in vitro.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Transcellular Propagation of Fibrillar α-Synuclein from Enteroendocrine to Neuronal Cells Requires Cell-to-Cell Contact and Is Rab35-Dependent

    Researchers characterized the progression and the cellular mechanisms involved in α-synuclein pre-formed fibrils transfer from enteroendocrine cells to neuronal cells.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Modeling Genetic Diseases in Nonhuman Primates through Embryonic and Germline Modification: Considerations and Challenges

    Scientists discuss current methods and their limitations for producing nonhuman primate genetic models that faithfully genocopy and phenocopy human disease.
    [Science Translational Medicine]

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    Long Non-Coding RNAs in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Their Differentiation

    The authors discuss the latest research on long non-coding RNAs in iPSC stemness, neuronal, and cardiac differentiation.
    [American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Alchemab Extends Partnership with Medicines Discovery Catapult to Bolster Collaborative Approach to Tackle Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alchemab Therapeutics announced an extension of its collaboration with Medicines Discovery Catapult, a national facility enabling the UK’s community to accelerate innovative drug discovery.
    [Alchemab Therapeutics]

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