Advanced drug delivery systems and artificial skin grafts for skin wound healing

HS Kim, X Sun, JH Lee, HW Kim, X Fu… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cutaneous injuries, especially chronic wounds, burns, and skin wound infection, require
painstakingly long-term treatment with an immense financial burden to healthcare systems …

The future of stem cell therapies for Parkinson disease

M Parmar, S Grealish, C Henchcliffe - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Cell-replacement therapies have long been an attractive prospect for treating Parkinson
disease. However, the outcomes of fetal tissue-derived cell transplants in individuals with …

Evaluating cell reprogramming, differentiation and conversion technologies in neuroscience

J Mertens, MC Marchetto, C Bardy… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The scarcity of live human brain cells for experimental access has for a long time limited our
ability to study complex human neurological disorders and elucidate basic neuroscientific …

More than bad luck: cancer and aging are linked to replication-driven changes to the epigenome

CJ Minteer, K Thrush, J Gonzalez, P Niimi… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Aging is a leading risk factor for cancer. While it is proposed that age-related accumulation
of somatic mutations drives this relationship, it is likely not the full story. We show that aging …

The pluripotent state in mouse and human

KC Davidson, EA Mason, MF Pera - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
In the mouse, naïve pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are thought to represent the cell culture
equivalent of the late epiblast in the pre-implantation embryo, with which they share a …

Cell culture‐derived extracellular vesicles: Considerations for reporting cell culturing parameters

F Shekari, FJ Alibhai, H Baharvand… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cell culture‐conditioned medium (CCM) is a valuable source of extracellular vesicles (EVs)
for basic scientific, therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Cell culturing parameters affect …

A versatile polypharmacology platform promotes cytoprotection and viability of human pluripotent and differentiated cells

Y Chen, CA Tristan, L Chen, VM Jovanovic, C Malley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are capable of extensive self-renewal yet remain
highly sensitive to environmental perturbations in vitro, posing challenges to their …

Low rates of mutation in clinical grade human pluripotent stem cells under different culture conditions

O Thompson, F von Meyenn, Z Hewitt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The occurrence of repetitive genomic changes that provide a selective growth advantage in
pluripotent stem cells is of concern for their clinical application. However, the effect of …

How can clinical safety and efficacy concerns in stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury be overcome?

N Hejrati, R Wong, M Khazaei… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Spinal cord injury (SCI) can lead to severe neurological dysfunction. Despite
scientific and medical advances, clinically effective regenerative therapies including stem …

Distinct metabolic states can support self-renewal and lipogenesis in human pluripotent stem cells under different culture conditions

H Zhang, MG Badur, AS Divakaruni, SJ Parker, C Jäger… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Recent studies have suggested that human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) depend primarily
on glycolysis and only increase oxidative metabolism during differentiation. Here, we …