UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for bioprinting a human neural network in vitro. The inventors’ method fabricates human neural tissues that form a functional neural network within ...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a Rhesus Macaque induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line, called the Rh2431 iPSC line. 
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a simple and versatile method to spatially pattern hPSC differentiations via localized adsorption of morphogens on substrates. Morphogens including BMP4, noggin, ...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered a novel marker in cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts that reliably predicts extracellular matrix production in cultured cardiac fibroblasts. Sushi Domain Con...
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The inventors have developed a novel system for co-differentiation of hepatocytes and hematopoietic progenitors from human embryonic stem cells (ES cells) that mimics a late fetal liver undergoing hem...
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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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Down syndrome (Trisomy 21, Ts21) is a condition caused by having an extra copy of the 21st chromosome due to an error in cell division. People born with Down syndrome have a characteristic phenotype a...
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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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The present invention relates to methods for reprogramming a somatic cell to pluripotency by administering into the somatic cell at least one or a plurality of potency-determining factors. The inventi...
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Previous methods for culturing human embryonic stem cells have required either fibroblast feeder cells or a medium which has been exposed to fibroblast feeder cells in order to maintain the stem cells...
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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 reprogramming primate somatic cells to pluripotency using an episomal vector that does not encode an infectious virus are disclosed. Pluripotent cells produced in the methods are also disc...
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A population of iPS cells derived from somatic cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the cells have been cultured to produce neural cells. In a...
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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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Methods for reprogramming primate somatic cells to pluripotency using an episomal vector that does not encode an infectious virus are disclosed. Pluripotent cells produced in the methods are also disc...
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Previous methods for culturing primate pluripotent stem cells have required either fibroblast feeder cells or a medium which was exposed to fibroblast feeder cells to maintain the stem cells in an und...
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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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Previous methods for culturing human embryonic stem cells have required either fibroblast feeder cells or a medium which has been exposed to fibroblast feeder cells in order to maintain the stem cells...
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