UW-Madison researchers have developed a defined and efficient method to direct the differentiation of epicardial cells to produce cardiac fibroblast cells. This builds on Dr. Palacek’s prior inn...
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Provided herein are methods and compositions for inducing chemical senescence in neurons and methods of using chemically induced senescent neurons for modeling neurodegenerative disease and drug disco...
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Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, neuromesodermal progenitors, and neural stem cells into bioengineered elliptical neur...
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Methods for obtaining populations of norepinephrine (NE) neuronal progenitor cells and creating enriched populations of NE neurons are provided herein. Also provided herein are methods for obtaining g...
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Despite recent advances in prevention and management, myelosuppression and febrile neutropenia are a complication of cancer therapies and a common cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in pedia...
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The present invention provides methods of creating a population of hemogenic endothelial cells with arterial specification and enhanced T cell potential. The methods involve inducing the expression of...
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A frequent procedure in cardiovascular surgery is to replace or bypass a blood vessel in order to provide a more adequate flow of blood to downstream tissues. In operations that bypass coronary arteri...
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Cardiac fibroblasts (CF) comprise a major fraction of the total cells in the heart and can arise from mesodermal progenitor cells as the heart develops. CFs are primarily responsible for generating ex...
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A method of differentiating embryonic stem cells into ventral spinal progenitor cells is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention comprises culturing a population of cells comprising a majority of ...
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A method for efficient generation of neutrophils, eosinophils, macrophages, osteoclasts, dendritic cells an Langerhans cells from human embryonic stem cells is disclosed.
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Methods for obtaining multipotent mesenchymal stem cells under serum-free conditions and methods for identifying multipotent mesenchymal progenitor cells are disclosed.
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A three-dimensional microwell system that supports long term pluripotent cell culture and formation of homogeneous embryoid bodies (EBs) is described. Microwell-cultured pluripotent cells remain viabl...
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Methods for expanding proliferating populations of neuronal subtype-specific progenitors and creating substantially pure populations of motor neurons are provided herein. In particular, the present in...
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Methods and devices for culturing human pluripotent stem cells to produce cells of the pancreatic lineage are disclosed. The methods include steps of culturing the stem cells under conditions that ind...
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Methods for producing substantially pure cultures of human neural retinal progenitor cells, forebrain progenitor cells, and retinal pigment epithelial cells are disclosed. In addition, the successful ...
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A transcription factor both necessary and sufficient for human neuroectoderm specification, Pax6, as well as applications thereof, is disclosed.
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Methods for culturing the pluripotent stem cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and for generating high-yield, high-purity cardiomyocyte cultures from pluripotent stem cells are descr...
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The invention relates to purified, tissue-specific progenitors, methods of making and using such tissue-specific progenitors.
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Methods of efficiently converting primate pluripotent stem cells to GABA neurons or cholinergic neurons, as well as applications thereof, are disclosed.
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Methods for generating high-yield, high-purity cardiomyocyte progenitors or cardiomyocytes from pluripotent cells are described. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is first activated in pluripotent cells, e.g.,...
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A method for producing mature hepatocytes having functional hepatic enzyme activity from human pluripotent cells is disclosed. The method includes the step of transferring an external vector that incl...
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The present invention provides methods of differentiating pericytes from pluripotent stem cells comprising culturing steps in chemically defined culture medium. A population of exogenously derived per...
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Hydrogel compositions and methods of using hydrogel compositions are disclosed. Advantageously, the hydrogel compositions offer the ability to promote cellular expansion and/or cellular differentiatio...
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Methods for generating and using hematopoietic progenitor cells are described.
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Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for forming engineered in vitro biomimetic, three-dimensional, tubular organoid structures by directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem ce...
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