The derivation of human embryonic stem cells 10 years ago ignited an explosion of public interest in stem cells, yet this achievement depended on prior decades of research on mouse embryonic carcinoma cells and embryonic stem cells. In turn, the recent derivation of mouse and human induced pluripotent stem cells depended on the prior studies on mouse and human embryonic stem cells. Both human e...

On 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: ?Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells.? This report came from a team of Madison, Wisconsin scientists: Junying Yu [5], Maxim A. Vodyanik, Kim Smuga-Otto, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget, Jennifer L. Frane, Shulan Tian, Jeff Nie, Gudrun A. Jo...

Although there are a number of weaknesses for clinical use, pluripotent stem cells are valuable sources for patient-specific cell therapies against various diseases. Backed-up by a huge number of basic researches, neuronal differentiation mechanism is well established and pluripotent stem cell therapies against neurological disorders are getting closer to clinical application. However, there ar...

The field of regenerative medicine research is rapidly expanding. One area of interest to equine researchers is the possibility of isolating or generating pluripotent cells, capable of producing differentiated cell types derived from all 3 primary germ layers. Reports of equine embryonic stem-like (ES) cell isolation can be found in the literature. Other groups are working to produce equine-ind...

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are reprogrammed by transient expression of transcription factors in somatic cells. Approximately 1% of somatic cells can be reprogrammed into iPSCs, while the remaining somatic cells are differentially reprogrammed. Here, we established induced pluripotent cancer stem-like cells (iCSCs) as self-renewing pluripotent cell clones. Stable iCSC lines wer...

population whose primary function is to generate progeny that then develop into terminally differentiated cell types, such as a cardiomyocytes, neurons or photoreceptors. Tissuespecific adult stem cells, or progenitors, are committed to producing tissue or lineage-specific cells, whereas totipotent or pluripotent stem cells can give rise to any of the 200+ cell types of the body. There are two ...

(Cell 184, 2020–2032.e1–e14; April 15, 2021) In the original version of this paper, we failed to include in author list Hongkui Deng, who made a critical contribution work by providing extended pluripotent stem cells. The online paper has been corrected. All co-authors have approved addition. We also cited preliminary manuscript deposited on bioRxiv (Aksoy et al., 2020) instead published study ...

Oligodendrocytes myelinate axons and form myelin sheaths in the central nervous system. The development of therapies for demyelinating diseases, including multiple sclerosis and leukodystrophies, is a challenge because the pathogenic mechanisms of disease remain poorly understood. Primate pluripotent stem cell-derived oligodendrocytes are expected to help elucidate the molecular pathogenesis of...

HIV-1-based vectors are widely used in gene therapy. In somatic cells, these vectors mainly integrate within genes. However, no distinct integration site preferences have been observed with regard to large chromosomal regions. The recent emergence of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, similar to embryonic stem (ES) cells, has raised questions about where integration occurs in these cells. In...