Exploiting urine-derived induced pluripotent stem cells for advancing precision medicine in cell therapy, disease modeling, and drug testing

X Yin, Q Li, Y Shu, H Wang, B Thomas… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2024 - Springer
The field of regenerative medicine has witnessed remarkable advancements with the
emergence of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from a variety of sources …

Rational formulation and industrial manufacturing of lipid-based complex injectables: Landmarks and trends

M Biscaia-Caleiras, NA Fonseca, AS Lourenço… - Journal of Controlled …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lipid-based complex injectables are renowned for their effectiveness in delivering drugs,
with many approved products. While significant strides have been made in formulating …

The pRb/RBL2-E2F1/4-GCN5 axis regulates cancer stem cell formation and G0 phase entry/exit by paracrine mechanisms

CH Chang, F Liu, S Militi, S Hester, R Nibhani… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The lethality, chemoresistance and metastatic characteristics of cancers are associated with
phenotypically plastic cancer stem cells (CSCs). How the non-cell autonomous signalling …

Cerebral organoids display dynamic clonal growth and tunable tissue replenishment

D Lindenhofer, S Haendeler, C Esk, JB Littleboy… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
During brain development, neural progenitors expand through symmetric divisions before
giving rise to differentiating cell types via asymmetric divisions. Transition between those …

BRD9-SMAD2/3 orchestrates stemness and tumorigenesis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Y Feng, L Cai, M Pook, F Liu, CH Chang, MA Mouti… - Gastroenterology, 2024 - Elsevier
Background & Aims The dismal prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is
linked to the presence of pancreatic cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) that respond poorly to …

CGG repeats in the human FMR1 gene regulate mRNA localization and cellular stress in developing neurons

CL Sirois, Y Guo, M Li, NE Wolkoff, T Korabelnikov… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
The human genome has many short tandem repeats, yet the normal functions of these
repeats are unclear. The 5′ untranslated region (UTR) of the fragile X messenger …

HiHo-AID2: boosting homozygous knock-in efficiency enables robust generation of human auxin-inducible degron cells

S Li, Y Wang, M van der Stoel, X Zhou, S Madhusudan… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Recent developments in auxin-inducible degron (AID) technology have increased its
popularity for chemogenetic control of proteolysis. However, generation of human AID cell …

Mechanistic toxicology in light of genetic compensation

MJ Elizalde, DA Gorelick - Toxicological Sciences, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mechanistic toxicology seeks to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which
toxicants exert their deleterious effects. One powerful approach is to generate mutations in …

[HTML][HTML] iSCORE-PD: an isogenic stem cell collection to research Parkinson's Disease

O Busquets, H Li, KM Syed, PA Jerez, J Dunnack… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by complex genetic and
environmental factors. Genome-edited human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer the …

Using induced pluripotent stem cells for drug discovery in arrhythmias

D Teles, BM Fine - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Arrhythmias are disturbances in the normal rhythm of the heart and account for
significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. Historically, preclinical …