ESC & iPSC News Volume 18.39 | Oct 18 2023

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    2023-10-18 | ESC 18.39


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    Vol. 18.39 – 18 October, 2023
    TOP STORY

    Functional Interrogation of Twenty Type 2 Diabetes-Associated Genes Using Isogenic Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived β-Like Cells

    Investigators engineered isogenic knockout human ESC lines for 20 genes associated with type 2 diabetes risk. They examined the impacts of each knockout on β cell differentiation, functions, and survival.
    [Cell Metabolism]

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    Webinar: Organoids as Models for Human Disease
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    Engineering Stem Cell Fate Controlling Biomaterials to Develop Muscle Connective Tissue Layered Myofibers

    A bioengineering strategy to create muscle connective tissue-layered myofibers through the development of stem cell fate-controlling biomaterials that achieved both myogenesis and fibroblast differentiation in a locally controlled manner at the single construct was introduced.
    [Advanced Functional Materials]

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    Epigenetic Regulation Limits Competence of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Oocytes

    Scientists performed a comprehensive comparison of mouse germ cell development in vitro over all culture steps versus in vivo with the goal of understanding mechanisms underlying poor oocyte quality.
    [EMBO Journal]

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    Complex Haploinsufficiency in Pluripotent Cells Yields Somatic Cells with DNA Methylation Abnormalities and Pluripotency Induction Defects

    To understand whether complex haploinsufficiency exists in pluripotent cells, researchers simultaneously eliminated a single allele in different combinations of two pluripotency genes.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Signaling Pathway Crosstalk Stimulated by L-proline Drives Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells to Primitive-Ectoderm-Like Cells

    Investigators utilized a factorial experimental design coupled with statistical modeling to understand which signaling pathways were involved in the transition between ESCs and early primitive ectoderm-like cells.
    [Development]

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    Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Fate Trajectories towards Lung and Hepatocyte Progenitors

    Scientists employed single-cell RNA-sequencing with high temporal precision, alongside an optimized differentiation protocol, to elucidate the transcriptional hierarchy of lung specification to chart the associated single-cell trajectories.
    [iScience]

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    Vitamin C Activates Young LINE-1 Elements in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells via H3K9me3 Demethylation

    The authors showed that vitamin C increased the expression of several transposable element families, including evolutionarily young LINE-1 elements, in mouse ESCs.
    [Epigenetics & Chromatin]

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    Fabrication of Shape-Designable Cartilage from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Chondroprogenitors Using a Cell Self-Aggregation Technique

    Researchers described the production of shape-designable cartilage using a novel cell self-aggregation technique and chondroprogenitor cells derived from hiPSCs as the source.
    [Biomedical Materials]

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    Modeling Takenouchi-Kosaki Syndrome Using Disease-Specific iPSCs

    Investigators used iPSCs derived from Takenouchi-Kosaki Syndrome (TKS) patients to model the disease and successfully recapitulated macrothrombocytopenia, a prominent TKS phenotype.
    [Stem Cell Research]

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    REVIEWS

    On the Utilization of the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Model to Study Substance Use Disorders: A Scoping Review Protocol

    The authors provide a comprehensive scoping review of iPSC methods specifically applied to a broad range of addictive drugs/substances that lead to substance use disorders or misuse behavior.
    [PLOS One]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Argentina Election: Front Runner Vows to Slash Science Funding

    Scientists in Argentina are on edge as the country’s presidential election approaches. If elected president, economist Javier Milei has pledged to eliminate government spending on research and shut down the environment and health ministries.
    [Nature]

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