A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies

CB Pantazis, A Yang, E Lara, JA McDonough… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines are a powerful tool for studying
development and disease, but the considerable phenotypic variation between lines makes it …

Identification of cell barcodes from long-read single-cell RNA-seq with BLAZE

Y You, YDJ Prawer, R De Paoli-Iseppi, CPJ Hunt… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Long-read single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the quantification of RNA
isoforms in individual cells. However, long-read scRNA-seq using the Oxford Nanopore …

CD47 promotes the proliferation and migration of adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma cells by activating the MAPK/ERK pathway, and CD47 blockade facilitates …

H Zhang, C Wang, J Fan, Q Zhu, Y Feng… - Neuropathology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims CD47 is overexpressed in multiple tumours and plays an important role in immune
escape and other biological processes of tumours. However, its role in adamantinomatous …

Pharmacological rescue of mitochondrial and neuronal defects in SPG7 hereditary spastic paraplegia patient neurons using high throughput assays

G Wali, Y Li, E Liyanage, KR Kumar, ML Day… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
SPG7 is the most common form of autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP).
There is a lack of HSP-SPG7 human neuronal models to understand the disease …

Understanding and modeling regional specification of the human ganglionic eminence

CPJ Hunt, N Moriarty, CBJ van Deursen, CW Gantner… - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Inhibitory neurons originating from the ventral forebrain are associated with several
neurological conditions. Distinct ventral forebrain subpopulations are generated from …

Meningeal-derived retinoic acid regulates neurogenesis via suppression of Notch and Sox2

CN Como, R O'Rourke, C Winkler, D Mitchell, LN Tran… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The meninges act as a regulator of brain development by secreting ligands that act on
neural cells to regulate neurogenesis and neuronal migration. Meningeal-derived retinoic …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of human-induced pluripotent-stem-cell-derived cortical neurons for high-throughput imaging of neurite morphology and neuron maturation

G Wali, Y Li, D Abu-Bonsrah, D Kirik, CL Parish… - STAR protocols, 2023 - Elsevier
High-throughput imaging allows in vitro assessment of neuron morphology for screening
populations under developmental, homeostatic, and/or disease conditions. Here, we present …

CRISPR-Cas9 immune-evasive hESCs are rejected following transplantation into immunocompetent mice

HR Frederiksen, A Glantz, KK Vøls, S Skov… - Frontiers in Genome …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Although current stem cell therapies exhibit promising potential, the extended process of
employing autologous cells and the necessity for donor–host matching to avert the rejection …

Small molecules enhance reprogramming of adult human dermal fibroblasts to dorsal forebrain precursor cells

N Edwards, A McCaughey-Chapman… - Stem Cells and …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The development of human cell-based platforms for disease modeling, drug discovery, and
regenerative therapy relies on robust and practical methods to derive high yields of relevant …

A robust pipeline for the multi‐stage accelerated differentiation of functional 3D cortical organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

D Whye, D Wood, WA Saber, EM Norabuena… - Current …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disordered cellular development, abnormal neuroanatomical formations, and dysfunction of
neuronal circuitry are among the pathological manifestations of cortical regions in the brain …