[HTML][HTML] Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses

C Hajal, GS Offeddu, Y Shin, S Zhang, O Morozova… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) greatly restricts the entry of biological and engineered
therapeutic molecules into the brain. Due to challenges in translating results from animal …

Engineering islets from stem cells for advanced therapies of diabetes

J Siehler, AK Blöchinger, M Meier… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that affects more than 460 million people
worldwide. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells, whereas …

Continuous human iPSC-macrophage mass production by suspension culture in stirred tank bioreactors

M Ackermann, A Rafiei Hashtchin, F Manstein… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Macrophages derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have the potential
to enable the development of cell-based therapies for numerous disease conditions. We …

Animal models and animal-free innovations for cardiovascular research: current status and routes to be explored. Consensus document of the ESC Working Group on …

J van der Velden, FW Asselbergs… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cardiovascular diseases represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality, necessitating
research to improve diagnostics, and to discover and test novel preventive and curative …

[HTML][HTML] Assembly and function of a bioengineered human liver for transplantation generated solely from induced pluripotent stem cells

K Takeishi, AC de l'Hortet, Y Wang, K Handa… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
The availability of an autologous transplantable auxiliary liver would dramatically affect the
treatment of liver disease. Assembly and function in vivo of a bioengineered human liver …

High density bioprocessing of human pluripotent stem cells by metabolic control and in silico modeling

F Manstein, K Ullmann, C Kropp… - Stem cells …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
To harness the full potential of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) we combined
instrumented stirred tank bioreactor (STBR) technology with the power of in silico process …

[HTML][HTML] Assembly of human stem cell-derived cortical spheroids and vascular spheroids to model 3-D brain-like tissues

L Song, X Yuan, Z Jones, K Griffin, Y Zhou, T Ma… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Human cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide
novel tools for recapitulating the cytoarchitecture of human brain and for studying biological …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous WNT control enables advanced hPSC cardiac processing and prognostic surface marker identification in chemically defined suspension culture

C Halloin, K Schwanke, W Löbel, A Franke, M Szepes… - Stem Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
Aiming at clinical translation, robust directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
(hPSCs), preferentially in chemically defined conditions, is a key requirement. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assembly of differentiated progenitor cells facilitates spheroid human skin organoid formation and planar skin regeneration

P Ebner-Peking, L Krisch, M Wolf, S Hochmann… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Self-assembly of solid organs from single cells would greatly expand applicability of
regenerative medicine. Stem/progenitor cells can self-organize into micro-sized organ units …

[HTML][HTML] Generating human artery and vein cells from pluripotent stem cells highlights the arterial tropism of Nipah and Hendra viruses

LT Ang, AT Nguyen, KJ Liu, A Chen, X Xiong, M Curtis… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Stem cell research endeavors to generate specific subtypes of classically defined" cell
types." Here, we generate> 90% pure human artery or vein endothelial cells from pluripotent …