Advances in pluripotent stem cells: history, mechanisms, technologies, and applications

G Liu, BT David, M Trawczynski, RG Fessler - Stem cell reviews and …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past 20 years, and particularly in the last decade, significant developmental
milestones have driven basic, translational, and clinical advances in the field of stem cell …

Induced pluripotent stem cells and their use in human models of disease and development

P Karagiannis, K Takahashi, M Saito… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The discovery of somatic cell nuclear transfer proved that somatic cells can carry the same
genetic code as the zygote, and that activating parts of this code are sufficient to reprogram …

A decade of transcription factor-mediated reprogramming to pluripotency

K Takahashi, S Yamanaka - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
The past 10 years have seen great advances in our ability to manipulate cell fate, including
the induction of pluripotency in vitro to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). This …

Histone deacetylases inhibitors in neurodegenerative diseases, neuroprotection and neuronal differentiation

S Shukla, BL Tekwani - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Histone deacetylases (HADC) are the enzymes that remove acetyl group from lysine residue
of histones and non-histone proteins and regulate the process of transcription by binding to …

The information theory of aging

YR Lu, X Tian, DA Sinclair - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Information storage and retrieval is essential for all life. In biology, information is
primarily stored in two distinct ways: the genome, comprising nucleic acids, acts as a …

H3K9me3-dependent heterochromatin: barrier to cell fate changes

JS Becker, D Nicetto, KS Zaret - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
Establishing and maintaining cell identity depends on the proper regulation of gene
expression, as specified by transcription factors and reinforced by epigenetic mechanisms …

m6A RNA methylation is regulated by microRNAs and promotes reprogramming to pluripotency

T Chen, YJ Hao, Y Zhang, MM Li, M Wang, W Han… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) has been recently identified as a conserved
epitranscriptomic modification of eukaryotic mRNAs, but its features, regulatory mechanisms …

From basics to clinical: a comprehensive review on spinal cord injury

NA Silva, N Sousa, RL Reis, AJ Salgado - Progress in neurobiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological disorder that affects thousands of
individuals each year. Over the past decades an enormous progress has been made in our …

Direct conversion of normal and Alzheimer's disease human fibroblasts into neuronal cells by small molecules

W Hu, B Qiu, W Guan, Q Wang, M Wang, W Li, L Gao… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Neuronal conversion from human fibroblasts can be induced by lineage-specific
transcription factors; however, the introduction of ectopic genes limits the therapeutic …

Creating a false memory in the hippocampus

S Ramirez, X Liu, PA Lin, J Suh, M Pignatelli… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Memories can be unreliable. We created a false memory in mice by optogenetically
manipulating memory engram–bearing cells in the hippocampus. Dentate gyrus (DG) or …