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Effects of Microgravity on Stem Cells
May 29, 2020 Grimm et al. published a review looking at the effect of micogravity on stem cells and cancer cells. Because commerical space travel will become more common in the […]
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Summary of the EMBL-IBEC Winter Conference (February 2020)
May 15, 2020 A review article was published in The Company of Biolgists outlining topics covered at the joint European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) winter […]
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Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes are Susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 Infection
May 1, 2020 In a preprinted article, Sharma et al showed that SARS-CoV-2 can infect hiPSC-CMs in vitro.
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Robust production of uniform human cerebral organoids from pluripotent stem cells
April 24, 2020 Sivitilli et al. published a cerebral organoid protocol that claims to produce COs with great uniformity and higher reproducibility than previous publications.
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Glial cell diversity and methamphetamine-induced neuroinflammation in human cerebral organoids
April 24, 2020 Dang et al. showed the potential for using cerebral organoids combined with single-cell RNA sequencing to study the effects of drug-induced inflammation.
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Demonstration of brain region-specific neuronal vulnerability in human iPSC-based model of familial Parkinson’s disease
April 17, 2020 Brazdis et al. 2020
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Amyloid-β42/40 ratio drives tau pathology in 3D human neural cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease
April 17, 2020 Kwak et al. 2020
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Viral Delivery of GDNF Promotes Functional Integration of Human Stem Cell Grafts in Parkinson’s Disease
April 10, 2020 • DAn grafting into a GDNF-rich host aids pan-neuronal survival but impedes plasticity• Delaying graft exposure to GDNF increases DAn maturation, plasticity, and function• GDNF promotes functional […]
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XBio: Interactive Learning Website
April 10, 2020 Explorerbiology.org is a website made for ‘students in higher education and self-learners’. They host lessons in the forms of videos and essay about classic biological concepts, with backstories […]
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Muscular progenitor cells and iPSC-derived motor neurons self-organize into functional neuromuscular junction connection.
April 10, 2020 A 3D culture model of innervated human skeletal muscle enables studies of the adult neuromuscular junction Highlights:
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