Neuromesodermal progenitors and the making of the spinal cord

D Henrique, E Abranches, L Verrier… - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Neuromesodermal progenitors (NMps) contribute to both the elongating spinal cord and the
adjacent paraxial mesoderm. It has been assumed that these cells arise as a result of …

TGF-β signaling in cell fate control and cancer

Y Yu, XH Feng - Current opinion in cell biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family regulate cell fate decisions
during early embryonic development and tissue homeostasis in the adult. Deregulation of …

A method to recapitulate early embryonic spatial patterning in human embryonic stem cells

A Warmflash, B Sorre, F Etoc, ED Siggia… - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
Embryos allocate cells to the three germ layers in a spatially ordered sequence. Human
embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can generate the three germ layers in culture; however …

Self-organizing neuruloids model developmental aspects of Huntington's disease in the ectodermal compartment

T Haremaki, JJ Metzger, T Rito, MZ Ozair, F Etoc… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Harnessing the potential of human embryonic stem cells to mimic normal and aberrant
development with standardized models is a pressing challenge. Here we use micropattern …

Genetically engineering self-organization of human pluripotent stem cells into a liver bud-like tissue using Gata6

P Guye, MR Ebrahimkhani, N Kipniss… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have potential for personalized and
regenerative medicine. While most of the methods using these cells have focused on …

Characterization and Molecular Profiling of PSEN1 Familial Alzheimer's Disease iPSC-Derived Neural Progenitors

AA Sproul, S Jacob, D Pre, SH Kim, MW Nestor… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Presenilin 1 (PSEN1) encodes the catalytic subunit of γ-secretase, and PSEN1 mutations
are the most common cause of early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). In order to …

Posttranscriptional control of the stem cell and neurogenic programs by the nonsense-mediated RNA decay pathway

CH Lou, A Shao, EY Shum, JL Espinoza, L Huang… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
The mechanisms dictating whether a cell proliferates or differentiates have undergone
intense scrutiny, but they remain poorly understood. Here, we report that UPF1, a central …

Potential energy landscapes identify the information-theoretic nature of the epigenome

G Jenkinson, E Pujadas, J Goutsias, AP Feinberg - Nature genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Epigenetics is the study of biochemical modifications carrying information independent of
DNA sequence, which are heritable through cell division. In 1940, Waddington coined the …

Bulk cell density and Wnt/TGFbeta signalling regulate mesendodermal patterning of human pluripotent stem cells

H Kempf, R Olmer, A Haase, A Franke… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
In vitro differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) recapitulates early aspects of
human embryogenesis, but the underlying processes are poorly understood and controlled …

Is this a brain which I see before me? Modeling human neural development with pluripotent stem cells

IK Suzuki, P Vanderhaeghen - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The human brain is arguably the most complex structure among living organisms. However,
the specific mechanisms leading to this complexity remain incompletely understood …