ESC & iPSC News Volume 19.08 | Mar 06 2024

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    ESC & iPSC News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 19.08 – 6 March, 2024
    TOP STORY

    ZSCAN10 Deficiency Causes a Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Characteristic Oto-Facial Malformations

    The functional consequences of ZSCAN10 loss were modeled in mouse ESC, including a knock-out and a representative ZSCAN10 protein-truncating variant.
    [Brain]

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    Human Surface Ectoderm and Amniotic Ectoderm Are Sequentially Specified According to Cellular Density

    Researchers developed a human PSC model to investigate the divergence between amniotic and surface ectoderms. In the established culture system, cells differentiated into functional amnioblast-like cells.
    [Science Advances]

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    Clinical Characteristics and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Disease Model of Fabry Disease Caused by a Novel GLA Mutation

    Scientists investigated the etiology of the novel mutation in the GLA gene in affected patients by using induced pluripotent stem cells iPSCs as a valuable tool.
    [Qjm-An International Journal Of Medicine]

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    Trisomy 21-Driven Metabolite Alterations Are Linked to Cellular Injuries in Down Syndrome

    Researchers established a robust Down syndrome (DS) model harnessing hiPSCs from mosaic DS patients. These hiPSC lines encompassed both those with standard karyotype and those carrying an extra copy of extra copy of chromosome 21.
    [Cellular And Molecular Life Sciences]

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    Embryonic Stem Cells Overexpressing High Molecular Weight FGF2 Isoform Enhance Recovery of Pre-ganglionic Spinal Root Lesion in Combination with Fibrin Biopolymer Mediated Root Repair

    Scientists human ESCs bioengineered to overexpress 18, 23, and 31 kD isoforms of fibroblast growth factor 2, were used in combination with reimplantation of the avulsed roots using heterologous fibrin biopolymer.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    PTP1B Phosphatase Dampens iPSC-Derived Neutrophil Motility and Antimicrobial Function

    The authors showed that protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) inhibited intracellular signaling and dampens iNeutrophil effector function.
    [Journal Of Leukocyte Biology]

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    Mutant α-Synuclein Causes Death of Human Cortical Neurons via ERK1/2 and JNK Activation

    Investigators generated iPSCs derived from familial Parkinson’s disease patients carrying SNCA A53T mutation, differentiating them into cortical neurons by a direct conversion method.
    [Molecular Brain]

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    Generation of an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Line (PNUYHi002-a) from a Patient with Alzheimer’s Disease Carrying PRNP M232R Variant

    Researchers generated a human iPSC line from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells isolated from a 59-year-old male patient with Alzheimer’s disease.
    [Stem Cell Research]

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    Establishment of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Line SDQLCHi029-A from One Type 1 Familial Glucocorticoid Deficiency Patient Carrying Compound Heterozygote Mutations in MC2R Gene

    iPSC line SDQLCHi029-A was successfully generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from a five-day-old girl with melanocortin-2-receptor (MC2R) mutations
    [Stem Cell Research]

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    REVIEWS

    Kidney Disease Modeling with Organoids and Organs-on-Chips

    The authors describe recent advances in developing kidney organoids and organ-chips by harnessing iPS cell biology to model human-specific kidney functions and disease states. They also discuss challenges that must be overcome to realize the potential of organoids and organ-chips as conduits of the human kidney.
    [Annual Review Of Biomedical Engineering]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Will These Reprogrammed Elephant Cells Ever Make a Mammoth?

    Scientists have finally managed to put elephant skin cells into an embryonic state. The breakthrough — announced by the de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences in Dallas, Texas — is an early technical success in Colossal’s high-profile effort to engineer elephants with woolly mammoth traits.
    [Nature]

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    Embryonic Stem Cell Transplant Showing Safety in 12 Patients

    A Phase I/IIa clinical trial evaluating TED-A9, a human stem cell-based therapy, in people with Parkinson’s disease has finished dosing with no safety concerns identified to date.
    [Parkinson’s News Today]

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