ESC & iPSC News Volume 18.14 | Apr 12 2023

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    2023-04-12 | ESC 18.14


    ESC & iPSC News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 18.14 – 12 April, 2023
    TOP STORY

    MLL3/MLL4 Methyltransferase Activities Control Early Embryonic Development and Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation in a Lineage-Selective Manner

    Scientists reported that constitutive elimination of both MLL3 and MLL4 enzymatic activities prevented initiation of gastrulation and led to early embryonic lethality in mice.
    [Nature Genetics]

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    Developmentally Programmed Histone H3 Expression Regulates Cellular Plasticity at the Parental-to-Early Embryo Transition

    Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9–mediated gene editing in Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the expression pattern and role of individual replication-coupled histone H3 genes and compare them to the histone variant, H3.3.
    [Science Advances]

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    Pluripotent, Germ Cell Competent Adult Stem Cells Underlie Cnidarian Regenerative Ability and Clonal Growth

    The authors showed that adult stem cells in the cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus were pluripotent. They transplanted single i-cells from transgenic fluorescent donors to wild-type recipients and followed them in vivo in the translucent animals.
    [Current Biology]

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    Trajectory Reconstruction Identifies Dysregulation of Perinatal Maturation Programs in Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

    Researchers generated a single-cell RNA sequencing reference of mouse in vivo cardiomyocyte maturation with extensive sampling of previously difficult-to-isolate perinatal time periods.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Optimized Whole-Genome CRISPR Interference Screens Identify ARID1A-Dependent Growth Regulators in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Scientists developed the dCas9-KRAB-MeCP2 fusion protein for screening in iPSCs from multiple donors. They found silencing in a 200 bp window around the transcription start site in polyclonal pools to be as effective as using wild-type Cas9 for identifying essential genes, but with much reduced cell numbers.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Scalable Generation of Sensory Neurons from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Following principles of developmental biology and translational applicability, investigators developed an efficient stepwise differentiation method for peptidergic and non-peptidergic nociceptors.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    UPF3A Is Dispensable for Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay in Mouse Pluripotent and Somatic Cells

    The authors generated a Upf3a conditional knockout mouse strain and established multiple lines of ESCs and somatic cells without UPF3A. UPF3A neither repressed nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in mouse ESCs, somatic cells, nor in major organs including the liver, spleen, and thymus.
    [Life Science Alliance]

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    Engineering Alignment Has Mixed Effects on Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiated Cardiomyocyte Maturation

    Researchers showed that engineered alignment, incorporated before and during cardiac differentiation, affected hiPSC-cariomycotytes electrochemical coupling and mitochondrial morphology.
    [Tissue Engineering Part A]

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    Crotonylation of GAPDH Regulates Human Embryonic Stem Cell Endodermal Lineage Differentiation and Metabolic Switch

    The authors investigated the role of crotonylation in hESC differentiation by introduce crotonate into the culture medium of GFP tagged LTR7 primed H9 cell and extended PSC lines.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    REVIEWS

    Cloning in Action: Can Embryo Splitting, Induced Pluripotency and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Contribute to Endangered Species Conservation?

    Investigators examined the state of the art of available cloning technologies and their progress in species other than humans and rodent models, in order to provide a critical overview of their readiness and relevance for application in endangered animal conservation.
    [Biological Reviews]

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    Induction and Application of Human Naive Pluripotency

    The authors discuss their applications in studies of regulatory mechanisms involved in early developmental processes, including identification of molecular features, X chromosome inactivation modeling, transposable elements regulation, metabolic characteristics, and cell fate regulation.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology in Bone Biology

    Differentiation protocols to form bona fide bone-forming from iPSCs are available, and can be used to probe details of differentiation and function in depth.
    [Bone]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Two Major Stem Cell Research Projects Supported with More than $2.6 Million in Funding

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will provide more than $2.6 million in total funding for two major stem cell research projects led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz, the organization announced.
    [UC Santa Cruz]

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