miR-1458 is inhibited by low concentrations of Vitamin B6 and targets TBX6 to promote the formation of spermatogonial stem cells in Rugao Yellow Chicken by Qingqing Geng, Cai Hu, Ziduo Zhao, Zhe Wang, Fufu Cheng, Jing Chen, Qisheng Zuo, Yani Zhang

“…Overall, our findings suggest that miR-1458 is involved in SSCs formation, which is inhibited by low concentrations of Vitamin B6 and subsequently regulates the formation of SSCs by targeting TBX6, an essential gene involved in embryonic stem cell differentiation. Our study demonstrates the critical role of the Vitamin B6-miR-1458-TBX6 regulatory axis in spermatogonial stem cell formation in Rugao Yellow Chicken, providing new insights into the regulatory mechanisms by which miRNAs affect SSCs formation. …”
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Angioblast Derived from ES Cells Construct Blood Vessels and Ameliorate Diabetic Polyneuropathy in Mice by Tatsuhito Himeno, Hideki Kamiya, Keiko Naruse, Zhao Cheng, Sachiko Ito, Taiga Shibata, Masaki Kondo, Jiro Kato, Tetsuji Okawa, Atsushi Fujiya, Hirohiko Suzuki, Tetsutaro Kito, Yoji Hamada, Yutaka Oiso, Kenichi Isobe, Jiro Nakamura

“…These results suggest that transplantation of angioblast like cells induced from embryonic stem cells appears to be a novel therapeutic strategy for diabetic polyneuropathy.…”
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Highly efficient construction of monkey blastoid capsules from aged somatic cells by Junmo Wu, Tianao Shao, Zengli Tang, Gaojing Liu, Zhuoyao Li, Yuxi Shi, Yu Kang, Jiawei Zuo, Bo Zhao, Guangyu Hu, Jiaqi Liu, Weizhi Ji, Lei Zhang, Yuyu Niu

“…Prior research has predominantly utilized embryonic stem cells. In this work, we demonstrate the efficient generation of blastoids from induced pluripotent stem cells and somatic cell nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells derived from aged monkeys, achieving an 80% formation efficiency. …”
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NLRP7 maintains the genomic stability during early human embryogenesis via mediating alternative splicing by Zhongliang Chen, Liangxia Jiang, Min Su, Qibing Zeng, Peng Luo, Liangzhao Chu

“…Here, we show that NLRP7 knockout affects the genetic stability, resulting in increased DNA damage in both human embryonic stem cells and blastoids, making embryonic cells in blastoids more susceptible to apoptosis. …”
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Neural Induction, Neural Fate Stabilization, and Neural Stem Cells by Sally A. Moody, Hyun-Soo Je

“…Therefore, it is particularly important to understand how to manipulate embryonic stem cells and adult neural stem cells so their descendants can repopulate and functionally repair damaged brain regions. …”
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New Turns for High Efficiency Knock-In of Large DNA in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells by Xiangjun He, Yin-Xiong Li, Bo Feng

“…Recent technological advances by a coupling CRISPR system with various DNA repair mechanisms have further opened up new opportunities to overcome existing challenges in knocking-in foreign DNA in human pluripotent stem cells, including embryonic stem cells (ESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). …”
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Generation of live mice from haploid ESCs with germline-DMR deletions or switch by Yongjian Ma, Meng Yan, Zhenfei Xie, Hongling Zhang, Zhoujie Li, Yuanyuan Li, Suming Yang, Meiling Zhang, Wen Li, Jinsong Li

“…Here, we establish a stepwise system to reconstruct a development-related imprinting network, in which diploid embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived by fusing between parthenogenetic (PG)- and androgenetic (AG)-haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) with different DMR deletions (termed Ha-Ha-fusion system), followed by tetraploid complementation to produce all-haESC fetuses. …”
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Mitochondrial Dynamics: In Cell Reprogramming as It Is in Cancer by Javier Prieto, Josema Torres

“…Somatic cells can be reprogrammed into a pluripotent cellular state similar to that of embryonic stem cells. Given the significant physiological differences between the somatic and pluripotent cells, cell reprogramming is associated with a profound reorganization of the somatic phenotype at all levels. …”
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Evidence for Bone Marrow Adult Stem Cell Plasticity: Properties, Molecular Mechanisms, Negative Aspects, and Clinical Applications of Hematopoietic and Mesenchymal Stem Cells Trans... by Ivana Catacchio, Simona Berardi, Antonia Reale, Annunziata De Luisi, Vito Racanelli, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria

“…In contrast to the pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) which are able to give rise to all cell types of the body, mammalian adult stem cells (ASCs) appeared to be more limited in their differentiation potential and to be committed to their tissue of origin. …”
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Identification of Molecular Signatures in Neural Differentiation and Neurological Diseases Using Digital Color-Coded Molecular Barcoding by Debora Salerno, Alessandro Rosa

“…Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), including embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, represent powerful tools for disease modeling and for therapeutic applications. …”
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Vitamin A: A Key Inhibitor of Adipocyte Differentiation by Manal A. Malibary

“…Many recent studies have confirmed the relationship between retinoic acid (RA) and the conversion of embryonic stem cells into adipocytes; however, these studies have shown that RA potently blocks the differentiation of preadipocytes into mature adipocytes. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells as a Potent Cell Source for Bone Regeneration by Elham Zomorodian, Mohamadreza Baghaban Eslaminejad

“…A few cell types, including embryonic stem cells (ESCs), adult osteoblast, and adult stem cells, can be used for this purpose. …”
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Protocol for differentiating cardiomyocytes and generating engineered heart tissues from human feeder-free extended pluripotent stem cells by Zhongjun Wan, Shanshan Wen, Ran Zheng, Li Li, Wei Jiang, Donghui Zhang

“…We describe steps for converting human embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells (ESCs/iPSCs) into ffEPSCs, followed by their long-term maintenance, cryopreservation, seed preservation, and differentiation into cardiomyocytes. …”
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Asymmetric Cell Kinetics Genes: The Key to Expansion of Adult Stem Cells in Culture by James L. Sherley

“…A singular challenge in stem cell research today is the expansion and propagation of functional adult stem cells. Unlike embryonic stem cells, which are immortal in culture, adult stem cells are notorious for the difficulty encountered when attempts are made to expand them in culture. …”
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Corps embryoïdes : biologie moléculaire et cellules vivantes by Noémie Merleau-Ponty

“…The human embryo must first be inserted into a kinship—then detached from that kinship: one begins humanising it, then halts the humanising process to metamorphose it in a lineage of human embryonic stem cells. Embryoid bodies are constructed laboratory materials that are also steeped in emotions and profit margins, pasts and futures, in the recesses of which beats the organic pulse of the living.…”
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MTFAP: a comprehensive platform for predicting and analyzing master transcription factors by Jianyuan Zhou, Haojie Yu, Chunhui Lou, Min Yang, Yanshang Li, Qian Yang, Shuhan Li, Chunwang Ji, Song Li, Shuang Wang, Haotian Cao, Xuecang Li, Lian Liu

“…Abstract Master transcription factors (MTFs) activate gene expression in pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) by binding to enhancers and super-enhancers, which precisely control ESC fate. …”
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Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Cell Pluripotency, Differentiation, and Reprogramming by Androniki Kretsovali, Christiana Hadjimichael, Nikolaos Charmpilas

“…Under distinct developmental conditions, they can promote either self-renewal or differentiation of embryonic stem cells. In addition, they can promote directed differentiation of embryonic and tissue-specific stem cells along the neuronal, cardiomyocytic, and hepatic lineages. …”
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Bone Marrow Stem Cell as a Potential Treatment for Diabetes by Ming Li, Susumu Ikehara

“…Recently, research has focused on stem cells which can be classified into embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and tissue stem cells (TSCs) to generate functional β cells. …”
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Parthenogenesis and Human Assisted Reproduction by Adriana Bos-Mikich, Fabiana F. Bressan, Rafael R. Ruggeri, Yeda Watanabe, Flávio V. Meirelles

“…Parthenogenetic activation of human oocytes obtained from infertility treatments has gained new interest in recent years as an alternative approach to create embryos with no reproductive purpose for research in areas such as assisted reproduction technologies itself, somatic cell, and nuclear transfer experiments and for derivation of clinical grade pluripotent embryonic stem cells for regenerative medicine. Different activating methods have been tested on human and nonhuman oocytes, with varying degrees of success in terms of parthenote generation rates, embryo development stem cell derivation rates. …”
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Current Bioengineering Methods for Whole Kidney Regeneration by Shuichiro Yamanaka, Takashi Yokoo

“…Here, we review recent advances in the field of kidney regeneration, including (i) the directed differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells/embryonic stem cells into kidney cells; (ii) blastocyst decomplementation; (iii) use of a decellularized cadaveric scaffold; (iv) embryonic organ transplantation; and (v) use of a nephrogenic niche for growing xenoembryos for de novo kidney regeneration from stem cells. …”
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