ESC & iPSC News Volume 19.04 | Feb 7 2024

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    An Epigenetic Barrier Sets the Timing of Human Neuronal Maturation

    Scientists developed a human pluripotent stem cell-based approach to synchronize the birth of cortical neurons in vitro which helped to define an atlas of morphological, functional, and molecular maturation.
    [Nature]

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    Rewiring of the Epigenome and Chromatin Architecture by Exogenously Induced Retinoic Acid Signaling during Zebrafish Embryonic Development

    Researchers stimulated the retinoic acid (RA) pathway by treating zebrafish embryos with all-trans-RA and used a combination of RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq and HiChIP to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms by which exogenously induced RA signaling controlled gene expression.
    [Nucleic Acids Research]

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    Aneuploid Embryonic Stem Cells Drive Teratoma Metastasis

    Investigators demonstrated that teratomas derived from aneuploid murine ESCs, but not from isogenic diploid ESCs, disseminated to multiple organs, for which no additional copy number variations were required.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Interaction Network of Human Early Embryonic Transcription Factors

    Using mass spectrometry-based interactomics methods, affinity purification-mass spectrometry and proximity-dependent biotin labeling, and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing, scientists derived the comprehensive regulatory networks of these preimplantation transcription factors.
    [EMBO Reports]

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    Gene Regulatory Patterning Codes in Early Cell Fate Specification of the C. elegans Embryo

    To study the intermediate stages of early and late gastrulation, researchers determined the transcriptomes of the 1- to 102-cell stage to identify 119 embryonic cell-states during cell-fate specification, including ‘equivalence-group’ cell identities.
    [eLife]

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    Modeling Primitive and Definitive Erythropoiesis with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    The authors generated iPSCs from healthy fetal liver (FL) cells and produced isogenic primitive or definitive red blood cells (RBCs) which were compared directly to the FL-derived RBCs.
    [Blood Advances]

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    Epigenomic States Contribute to Coordinated Allelic Transcriptional Bursting in iPSC Reprogramming

    Scientists showed that the degree of coordination of allelic bursting differed among genes, and alleles of many reprogramming-related genes burst in a highly coordinated fashion.
    [Life Science Alliance]

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    Inhibition of Protein Kinase C Increases Prdm14 Level to Promote Self-Renewal of Embryonic Stem Cells through Reducing Suv39h-Induced H3K9 Methylation

    Administration of Go6983 increased Prdm14 expression mainly through the inhibition of PKCδ. High constitutive expression of Prdm14 phenocopied the ability of Go6983 to maintain` mouse ESC stemness in the absence of self-renewal-promoting cytokines.
    [Journal Of Biological Chemistry]

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    Correction of Ito in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Cardiomyocyte Carrying DPP6 Mutation in Early Repolarization Syndrome by CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing

    Researchers examined the electrophysiological mechanism of early repolarization syndrome (ERS) utilizing iPSCs and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Whole genome sequencing was used to identify the dipeptidyl-peptidase 6 (DPP6) variant in four families with sudden cardiac arrest induced by ERS.
    [Experimental Cell Research]

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    HAND Factors Regulate Cardiac Lineage Commitment and Differentiation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    With NKX2.5eGFP H9 hESCs, investigators established single and double knockout cell lines for HAND1 and HAND2, respectively, whose cardiomyocyte differentiation efficiency could be monitored by assessing NKX2.5-eGFP+ cells with flow cytometry.
    [Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cells and Neuroproteomics as Tools for Studying Neurodegeneration

    The authors highlight studies from the past five years on the contributions of iPSCs within neuroproteomic investigations, which uncover the molecular mechanisms behind neurodegenerative illnesses.
    [Academic Radiology]

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    Improving Stem Cell Research

    Third-year students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences worked with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute iPS Core Facility last fall to design a pair of solutions to reduce the time spent on day-to-day operations.
    [Harvard University]

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    Orbital Insights: Heart Cells in Microgravity

    NASA astronaut Kate Rubins conducted hundreds of experiments during her time on the International Space Station; now she discusses her experience conducting this pioneering research on the orbiting laboratory.
    [ISS National Laboratory]

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