Aging in a dish: iPSC-derived and directly induced neurons for studying brain aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases

J Mertens, D Reid, S Lau, Y Kim… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Age-associated neurological diseases represent a profound challenge in biomedical
research as we are still struggling to understand the interface between the aging process …

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 …

RNA-guided gene activation by CRISPR-Cas9–based transcription factors

P Perez-Pinera, DD Kocak, CM Vockley, AF Adler… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Technologies for engineering synthetic transcription factors have enabled many advances in
medical and scientific research. In contrast to existing methods based on engineering of …

Efficient myogenic/adipogenic transdifferentiation of bovine fibroblasts in a 3D bioprinting system for steak‐type cultured meat production

D Jeong, JW Seo, HG Lee, WK Jung… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The interest in cultured meat is increasing because of the problems with conventional
livestock industry. Recently, many studies related to cultured meat have been conducted, but …

Neural stem cell differentiation into mature neurons: mechanisms of regulation and biotechnological applications

MS Vieira, AK Santos, R Vasconcellos… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
The abilities of stem cells to self-renew and form different mature cells expand the
possibilities of applications in cell-based therapies such as tissue recomposition in …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted epigenetic remodeling of endogenous loci by CRISPR/Cas9-based transcriptional activators directly converts fibroblasts to neuronal cells

JB Black, AF Adler, HG Wang, AM D'Ippolito… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Overexpression of exogenous fate-specifying transcription factors can directly reprogram
differentiated somatic cells to target cell types. Here, we show that similar reprogramming …

Therapeutically engineered induced neural stem cells are tumour-homing and inhibit progression of glioblastoma

JR Bagó, A Alfonso-Pecchio, O Okolie… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transdifferentiation (TD) is a recent advancement in somatic cell reprogramming. The direct
conversion of TD eliminates the pluripotent intermediate state to create cells that are ideal …

RNA-guided gene editing and gene regulation

CA Gersbach, IB Hilton, P Perez-Pinera… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Abstract Disclosed herein are Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) 9-based system related compositions and methods of …

[PDF][PDF] Triboelectric nanogenerator accelerates highly efficient nonviral direct conversion and in vivo reprogramming of fibroblasts to functional neuronal cells

Y Jin, J Seo, JS Lee, S Shin, HJ Park, S Min… - Advanced …, 2016 - nbdl.yonsei.ac.kr
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201601900 minimal safety issues, in clinical settings.[8d] A study
reported nonviral polymer nanoparticle-mediated direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts to …

The effect of substrate topography on direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to induced neurons

K Kulangara, AF Adler, H Wang, M Chellappan… - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Cellular reprogramming holds tremendous potential for cell therapy and regenerative
medicine. Recently, fibroblasts have been directly converted into induced neurons (iNs) by …