Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs): molecular mechanisms of induction and applications

J Cerneckis, H Cai, Y Shi - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology has transformed in vitro research and
holds great promise to advance regenerative medicine. iPSCs have the capacity for an …

The evolving role of investigative toxicology in the pharmaceutical industry

F Pognan, M Beilmann, HCM Boonen… - Nature reviews drug …, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, preclinical toxicology was essentially a descriptive discipline in which
treatment-related effects were carefully reported and used as a basis to calculate safety …

An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging

N Sayed, Y Huang, K Nguyen, Z Krejciova-Rajaniemi… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
While many diseases of aging have been linked to the immunological system, immune
metrics capable of identifying the most at-risk individuals are lacking. From the blood …

Human cardiac organoids for the modelling of myocardial infarction and drug cardiotoxicity

DJ Richards, Y Li, CM Kerr, J Yao, GC Beeson… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Environmental factors are the largest contributors to cardiovascular disease. Here we show
that cardiac organoids that incorporate an oxygen-diffusion gradient and that are stimulated …

Current challenges of iPSC-based disease modeling and therapeutic implications

MX Doss, A Sachinidis - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based disease modelling and the cell replacement
therapy approach have proven to be very powerful and instrumental in biomedical research …

Induced pluripotent stem cell technology: a decade of progress

Y Shi, H Inoue, JC Wu, S Yamanaka - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Since the advent of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology a decade ago,
enormous progress has been made in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Human …

Addressing variability in iPSC-derived models of human disease: guidelines to promote reproducibility

V Volpato, C Webber - Disease models & mechanisms, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies have provided in vitro models of
inaccessible human cell types, yielding new insights into disease mechanisms especially for …

Single-cell RNA sequencing in cardiovascular development, disease and medicine

DT Paik, S Cho, L Tian, HY Chang… - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies in the past 10 years
have had a transformative effect on biomedical research, enabling the profiling and analysis …

Wnt activation and reduced cell-cell contact synergistically induce massive expansion of functional human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes

JW Buikema, S Lee, WR Goodyer, RG Maas… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Modulating signaling pathways including Wnt and Hippo can induce cardiomyocyte
proliferation in vivo. Applying these signaling modulators to human induced pluripotent stem …

Next generation of heart regenerative therapies: progress and promise of cardiac tissue engineering

MF Tenreiro, AF Louro, PM Alves… - NPJ Regenerative …, 2021 - nature.com
The adult heart is a vital and highly specialized organ of the human body, with limited
capability of self-repair and regeneration in case of injury or disease. Engineering …