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2009 Literature
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December 8, 2009

ISSCR 7th Annual Meeting Report:
McKay, R. D., van der Kooy, D., Zwaka, T. P., and Lin, H. (2009). Stem cells in 2009. Cell Stem Cell 5, 483-489.

Online highlights:
Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology continues to add new stem cell protocols monthly to their valuable online resource of methods and technologies in the field. Find these on their new Web site alongside newly developed online laboratory tools and calculators. Current Protocols.

Webinar—“iPS Cells - Breaking Down the Barriers to Therapeutics.” Learn more about disease-specific iPSCs and their potential applications from this Cell Press Webinar. If you missed the live event, you can still watch an archived version of the Webinar, and read Dr. Hans Schöler's answers to audience questions that couldn't be covered during the event itself.

Review:
Saha, K., and Jaenisch, R. (2009). Technical challenges in using human induced pluripotent stem cells to model disease. Cell Stem Cell 5, 584-595.

Forum:
Alexander, C. M., Puchalski, J., Klos, K. S., Badders, N., Ailles, L., Kim, C. F., Dirks, P., and Smalley, M. J. (2009). Separating stem cells by flow cytometry: reducing variability for solid tissues. Cell Stem Cell 5, 579-583.

Review of recent literature:
Schinder, A. F., and Morgenstern, N. A. (2009). Adult neurogenesis is altered by GABAergic imbalance in models of Alzheimer's disease. Cell Stem Cell 5, 573-574.
Commentary on Li et al., Cell Stem Cell 5, 634-645 and Sun et al., Cell Stem Cell 5, 624-633.

Kellner, J. C., and Coulombe, P. A. (2009). SKPing a hurdle: Sox2 and adult dermal stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 5, 569-570.
Commentary on Biernaskie et al., Cell Stem Cell 5, 610-623

 

Articles:
Baumgardt, M., Karlsson, D., Terriente, J., Diaz-Benjumea, F. J., and Thor, S. (2009). Neuronal subtype specification within a lineage by opposing temporal feed-forward loops. Cell 139, 969-982.

Cartier, N., Hacein-Bey-Abina, S., Bartholomae, C. C., Veres, G., Schmidt, M., Kutschera, I., Vidaud, M., Abel, U., Dal-Cortivo, L., Caccavelli, L., et al. (2009). Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy with a lentiviral vector in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Science 326, 818-823.

Chan, E. M., Ratanasirintrawoot, S., Park, I. H., Manos, P. D., Loh, Y. H., Huo, H., Miller, J. D., Hartung, O., Rho, J., Ince, T. A., et al. (2009). Live cell imaging distinguishes bona fide human iPS cells from partially reprogrammed cells. Nat Biotechnol 27, 1033-1037.

Doi, A., Park, I. H., Wen, B., Murakami, P., Aryee, M. J., Irizarry, R., Herb, B., Ladd-Acosta, C., Rho, J., Loewer, S., et al. (2009). Differential methylation of tissue- and cancer-specific CpG island shores distinguishes human induced pluripotent stem cells, embryonic stem cells and fibroblasts. Nat Genet 41, 1350-1353.

Guenou, H., Nissan, X., Larcher, F., Feteira, J., Lemaitre, G., Saidani, M., Del Rio, M., Barrault, C. C., Bernard, F. X., Peschanski, M., et al. (2009). Human embryonic stem-cell derivatives for full reconstruction of the pluristratified epidermis: a preclinical study. Lancet 374, 1745-1753.

Hall, J., Guo, G., Wray, J., Eyres, I., Nichols, J., Grotewold, L., Morfopoulou, S., Humphreys, P., Mansfield, W., Walker, R., et al. (2009). Oct4 and LIF/Stat3 additively induce Kruppel factors to sustain embryonic stem cell self-renewal. Cell Stem Cell 5, 597-609.

Kranc, K. R., Schepers, H., Rodrigues, N. P., Bamforth, S., Villadsen, E., Ferry, H., Bouriez-Jones, T., Sigvardsson, M., Bhattacharya, S., Jacobsen, S. E., and Enver, T. (2009). Cited2 is an essential regulator of adult hematopoietic stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 5, 659-665.

Lister, R., Pelizzola, M., Dowen, R. H., Hawkins, R. D., Hon, G., Tonti-Filippini, J., Nery, J. R., Lee, L., Ye, Z., Ngo, Q. M., et al. (2009). Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences. Nature 462, 315-322.

Lu, R., Markowetz, F., Unwin, R. D., Leek, J. T., Airoldi, E. M., MacArthur, B. D., Lachmann, A., Rozov, R., Ma'ayan, A., Boyer, L. A., et al. (2009). Systems-level dynamic analyses of fate change in murine embryonic stem cells. Nature 462, 358-362.

Rodriguez-Piza, I., Richaud-Patin, Y., Vassena, R., Gonzalez, F., Barrero, M. J., Veiga, A., Raya, A., and Izpisua Belmonte, J. C. (2009). Reprogramming of Human Fibroblasts to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Under Xeno-Free Conditions. Stem Cells.

Sharp, J., Frame, J., Siegenthaler, M., Nistor, G., and Keirstead, H. S. (2009). Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Transplants Improve Recovery after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Stem Cells.

Wellner, U., Schubert, J., Burk, U. C., Schmalhofer, O., Zhu, F., Sonntag, A., Waldvogel, B., Vannier, C., Darling, D., zur Hausen, A., et al. (2009). The EMT-activator ZEB1 promotes tumorigenicity by repressing stemness-inhibiting microRNAs. Nat Cell Biol 11, 1487-1495.

 

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November 10, 2009

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August 11, 2009

ISSCR pages in Cell Stem Cell
ISSCR President’s Note: Weissman, I. (2009). The ISSCR: Who Are We and Where Are We Going? Cell Stem Cell 5, 151-153.

ISSCR Committee Forum: Lensch, M. W., Jaenisch, R., Scadden, D. T., and Daley, G. Q. (2009). Konrad Hochedlinger: ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator for 2009. Cell Stem Cell 5, 154-155.

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A new journal: Science Translational Medicine
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Reviews on recent literature
Gupta, R., Vyas, P., and Enver., T. (2009). Molecular Targeting of Cancer Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 5, 125-126.
Commentary on Jin et al., 2009, Cell Stem Cell 5, 31-42 and Hoey et al., 2009, Cell Stem Cell 5, 168-177

Ritchie, D. S., and Smyth, M. J. (2009). A new therapeutic target for leukemia comes to the surface. Cell 138, 226-228.
Commentary on Majeti et al., 2009, Cell 138, 286-299 and Jaiswal et al., 2009, Cell 138, 271-285

On August 9, 2009, Nature published five papers (advance online) that each expand on the role of senescence and tumor suppressors in the process of reprogramming to pluripotency, and describe manipulation of pathways to increase efficiency:
Hong et al., 2009, doi:10.1038/nature08235; Utikal et al., 2009, doi:10.1038/nature08285; Marion et al., 2009, doi:10.1038/nature08287; Li et al., 2009, doi:10.1038/nature08290; Kawamura et al., 2009, doi:10.1038/nature08311

Resources
Brill, L. M., Xiong, W., Lee, K-B., Ficarro, S. B., Crain, A., Xu, Y., Terskikh, A., Snyder, E. Y., and Ding, S. (2009). Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 5, 204-213.

Van Hoof, D., Muñoz, J., Braam, S. R., Pinkse, M. W. H., Linding, R., Heck, A. J. R., Mummery, C. L., and Krijgsveld, J. (2009). Phosphorylation Dynamics during Early Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 5, 214-226.

Articles
Bersell, K., Arab, S., Haring, B., and Kuhn, B. (2009). Neuregulin1/ErbB4 signaling induces cardiomyocyte proliferation and repair of heart injury. Cell 138, 257-270.

Cicchetti, F., Saporta, S., Hauser, R. A., Parent, M., Saint-Pierre, M., Sanberg, P. R., Li, X. J., Parker, J. R., Chu, Y., Mufson, E. J., et al. (2009). Neural transplants in patients with Huntington's disease undergo disease-like neuronal degeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0904239106.

Coufal, N. G., Garcia-Perez, J. L., Peng, G. E., Yeo, G. W., Mu, Y., Lovci, M. T., Morell, M., O'Shea, K. S., Moran, J. V., and Gage, F. H. (2009). L1 retrotransposition in human neural progenitor cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature08248.

Kalaszczynska, I., Geng, Y., Iino, T., Mizuno, S., Choi, Y., Kondratiuk, I., Silver, D. P., Wolgemuth, D. J., Akashi, K., and Sicinski, P. (2009). Cyclin a is redundant in fibroblasts but essential in hematopoietic and embryonic stem cells. Cell 138, 352-365.

Kang, L., Wang, J., Zhang, Y., Kou, Z., and Gao, S. (2009). iPS Cells Can Support Full-Term Development of Tetraploid Blastocyst-Complemented Embryos. Cell Stem Cell 5, 135-138.

Lepper, C., Conway, S. J., and Fan, C. M. (2009). Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements. Nature 460, 627-631.

Lim, E., Vaillant, F., Wu, D., Forrest, N. C., Pal, B., Hart, A. H., Asselin-Labat, M. L., Gyorki, D. E., Ward, T., Partanen, A., et al. (2009). Aberrant luminal progenitors as the candidate target population for basal tumor development in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Nat Med 15, 907-913.

Sheng, X. R., Brawley, C. M., and Matunis, E. L. (2009). Dedifferentiating Spermatogonia Outcompete Somatic Stem Cells for Niche Occupancy in the Drosophila Testis. Cell Stem Cell 5, 191-203
Zhao, X-y., Li, W., Lv, Z., Liu, L., Tong, M., Hai, T., Hao, J., Guo, C-l., Ma, Q-w., Wang, L., Zeng F., and  Zhou, Q. (2009). iPS cells produce viable mice through tetraploid complementation. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature08267 (2009).

 

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June 9, 2009

ISSCR pages in Cell Stem Cell
McKay, R. D. G. (2009). Stem cells by the sea. Cell Stem Cell 4, 511-512.

Special issues:
Cell Stem Cell marks 2 years.
The June issue of Cell Stem Cell marks the journal’s second anniversary! To celebrate, this month’s issue is packed with extra content, including exciting research articles, a trio of Minireviews on stem cell niches and a pair of Perspectives on how pluripotency is established and regulated. Looking forward to the ISSCR 7th Annual Meeting, July 8-11 in Barcelona, a Forum article outlines the current status of stem cell research in Spain, and science writer Henry Nicholls profiles the incoming ISSCR President, Irving Weissman.
Cell Stem Cell 4, 465-582

Transplantation: The Beaune Seminars (2007-2008).
The 7th Beaune Seminar (2007) focused on the topic of possible applications of mesenchymal stem cells in tolerance induction for both organ and hematopoietic cell transplantation. The 8th Beaune Seminar (2008) examines the many obstacles which have been identified to inhibit the successful application of effective small animal tolerance protocols to large animals and humans.
Transplantation 87(9s);S35-S100.

Review
Brigande, J. V., and Heller, S. (2009). Quo vadis, hair cell regeneration? Nat Neurosci 12, 679-685.

Fuchs, E. (2009). The tortoise and the hair: slow-cycling cells in the stem cell race.Cell 137, 811-819.

Review of recent literature
Coombs, A. (2009). Diabetes stem cell treatments look to cell capsules. Nature Reports Stem Cells. doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.78.
Commentary on Seung-Hee et al, 2009, Transplantation 87, 983–991.

Merchant, A. A., and Matsui, W. (2009). Smoothening the controversial role of hedgehog in hematopoiesis.
Cell Stem Cell 4, 470-471.
Commentary on Gao et al, 2009, Cell Stem Cell 4,548-558 and Hofmann et al, 2009, Cell Stem Cell 4,559-567.

Resource
Pollard, S. M., Yoshikawa, K., Clarke, I. D., Danovi, D., Stricker, S., Russell, R., Bayani, J., Head, R., Lee, M., Bernstein, M., et al. (2009). Glioma stem cell lines expanded in adherent culture have tumor-specific phenotypes and are suitable for chemical and genetic screens. Cell Stem Cell 4, 568-580.

 

Articles
Adamo, L., Naveiras, O., Wenzel, P. L., McKinney-Freeman, S., Mack, P. J., Gracia-Sancho, J., Suchy-Dicey, A., Yoshimoto, M., Lensch, M. W., Yoder, M. C., et al. (2009). Biomechanical forces promote embryonic haematopoiesis.Nature. doi:10.1038/nature08073.

Fichelson, P., Moch, C., Ivanovitch, K., Martin, C., Sidor, C. M., Lepesant, J. A., Bellaiche, Y., and Huynh, J. R. (2009). Live-imaging of single stem cells within their niche reveals that a U3snoRNP component segregates asymmetrically and is required for self-renewal in Drosophila. Nat Cell Biol 11, 685-693.

Hanna, J., Markoulaki, S., Mitalipova, M., Cheng, A. W., Cassady, J. P., Staerk, J., Carey, B. W., Lengner, C. J., Foreman, R., Love, J., et al. (2009). Metastable pluripotent states in NOD-mouse-derived ESCs. Cell Stem Cell 4, 513-524.

North, T. E., Goessling, W., Peeters, M., Li, P., Ceol, C., Lord, A. M., Weber, G. J., Harris, J., Cutting, C. C., Huang, P., et al. (2009). Hematopoietic stem cell development is dependent on blood flow. Cell 137, 736-748.

Rawlins, E. L., Okubo, T., Xue, Y., Brass, D. M., Auten, R. L., Hasegawa, H., Wang, F., and Hogan, B. L. (2009). The role of Scgb1a1+ Clara cells in the long-term maintenance and repair of lung airway, but not alveolar, epithelium. Cell Stem Cell 4, 525-534.

Raya, A., Rodriguez-Piza, I., Guenechea, G., Vassena, R., Navarro, S., Barrero, M. J., Consiglio, A., Castella, M., Rio, P., Sleep, E., et al. (2009). Disease-corrected haematopoietic progenitors from Fanconi anaemia induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature08129.

van Ramshorst, J., Bax, J. J., Beeres, S. L., Dibbets-Schneider, P., Roes, S. D., Stokkel, M. P., de Roos, A., Fibbe, W. E., Zwaginga, J. J., Boersma, E., et al. (2009). Intramyocardial bone marrow cell injection for chronic myocardial ischemia: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 301, 1997-2004.

 

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May 12, 2009

Review of recent literature
Coll, M. L. (2009). Cloned embryos can't fool a womb. Nature Reports Stem Cells. doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.67
Commentary on Bauersachs et al., 2009, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 5681-5686 and Mansouri-Attia et al., 2009, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 5687-5692.

Subramanian, V., Klattenhoff, C. A. and Boyer, L. A. (2009). Screening for Novel Regulators of Embryonic Stem Cell Identity. Cell Stem Cell 4, 377-378.
Commentary on Ding et al., 2009, Cell Stem Cell 4, 403-415 and Hu et al., 2009, Genes Dev. 23, 837-848.

Zaret, K. S. (2009). Using Small Molecules to Great Effect in Stem Cell Differentiation. Cell Stem Cell 4, 373-374
Commentary on Zhu et al., 2009, Cell Stem Cell 4, 416-426 and Borowiak et al., 2009 Cell Stem Cell 4, 348-358.

Articles
Deneault, E., Cellot, S., Faubert, A., Laverdure, J. P., Frechette, M., Chagraoui, J., Mayotte, N., Sauvageau, M., Ting, S. B., and Sauvageau, G. (2009). A functional screen to identify novel effectors of hematopoietic stem cell activity. Cell 137, 369-379.

Jensen, K. B., Collins, C. A., Nascimento, E., Tan, D. W., Frye, M., Itami, S. and F.M. Watt. (2009). Lrig1 Expression Defines a Distinct Multipotent Stem Cell Population in Mammalian Epidermis. Cell Stem Cell 4, 427-439.

Judson, R. L., Babiarz, J. E., Venere, M., and Blelloch, R. (2009). Embryonic stem cell-specific microRNAs promote induced pluripotency. Nat Biotechnol 27, 459-461.

Katz, D. J., Edwards, T. M., Reinke, V., and Kelly, W. G. (2009). A C. elegans LSD1 demethylase contributes to germline immortality by reprogramming epigenetic memory. Cell 137, 308-320.

Ohinata, Y., Ohta, H., Shigeta, M., Yamanaka, K., Wakayama, T., and Saitou, M. (2009). A signaling principle for the specification of the germ cell lineage in mice. Cell 137, 571-584.

Que, J., Luo, X., Schwartz, R. J., and Hogan, B. L. (2009). Multiple roles for Sox2 in the developing and adult mouse trachea. Development 136, 1899-1907.

Rosa, A., Spagnoli, F. M., and Brivanlou, A. H. (2009). The miR-430/427/302 family controls mesendodermal fate specification via species-specific target selection. Dev Cell 16, 517-527.

Takeuchi, J. K., and Bruneau, B. G. (2009). Directed transdifferentiation of mouse mesoderm to heart tissue by defined factors. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature08039.

Wolf, D., and Goff, S. P. (2009). Embryonic stem cells use ZFP809 to silence retroviral DNAs. Nature 458, 1201-1204.

Xu, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pan, G., Thomson, J. A., and Kosik, K. S. (2009). MicroRNA-145 Regulates OCT4, SOX2, and KLF4 and Represses Pluripotency in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.02.038.

Zhou, H., Wu, S., Joo, J. Y., Zhu, S., Han, D. W., Lin, T., Trauger, S., Bien, G., Yao, S., Zhu, Y., et al. (2009). Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Recombinant Proteins. Cell Stem Cell 4, 381-384.

 

April 14, 2009

Review
Feng, B., Ng, J. H., Heng, J. C., and Ng, H. H. (2009). Molecules that promote or enhance reprogramming of somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 4, 301-312.

Review of recent literature
Baker, M., 2009. Stem cells and neurodegenerative disease: cool science and skepticism. Nature Reports Stem Cells. doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.54
Discussion and interviews with authors of recent articles on neural stem cell clinically-related studies.

Berman, B. P., Weisenberger, D. J., and Laird, P. W. (2009). Locking in on the human methylome. Nat Biotechnol 27, 341-342.
Commentary on Deng et al., 2009, Nat Biotechnol 27, 353-360; and Ball et al., 2009, Nat Biotechnol 27, 361-368.

Yang, Y. P., and Wright, C. (2009). Chemicals turn human embryonic stem cells towards beta cells. Nat Chem Biol 5, 195-196.
Commentary on Chen et al., 2009, Nat Chem Biol 5, 195-196. See also Borowiak et al., 2009, Cell Stem Cell 4, 348-358

te Riele, H. (2009). Recreating stem cells: a novel entrance to the fountain of youth. Cell Stem Cell 4, 279-280.
Commentary on Liu et al., 2009, Cell Stem Cell 4, 336-347.

 

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Articles
Adams, G. B., Alley, I. R., Chung, U. I., Chabner, K. T., Jeanson, N. T., Celso, C. L., Marsters, E. S., Chen, M., Weinstein, L. S., Lin, C. P., et al. (2009). Haematopoietic stem cells depend on Galpha(s)-mediated signalling to engraft bone marrow. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07859.

Bergmann, O., Bhardwaj, R. D., Bernard, S., Zdunek, S., Barnabe-Heider, F., Walsh, S., Zupicich, J., Alkass, K., Buchholz, B. A., Druid, H., et al. (2009). Evidence for cardiomyocyte renewal in humans. Science 324, 98-102.

Bethke, A., Fielenbach, N., Wang, Z., Mangelsdorf, D. J., and Antebi, A. (2009). Nuclear hormone receptor regulation of microRNAs controls developmental progression. Science 324, 95-98.

Ezhkova, E., Pasolli, H. A., Parker, J. S., Stokes, N., Su, I. H., Hannon, G., Tarakhovsky, A., and Fuchs, E. (2009). Ezh2 orchestrates gene expression for the stepwise differentiation of tissue-specific stem cells. Cell 136, 1122-1135.

Goessling, W., North, T. E., Loewer, S., Lord, A. M., Lee, S., Stoick-Cooper, C. L., Weidinger, G., Puder, M., Daley, G. Q., Moon, R. T., and Zon, L. I. (2009). Genetic interaction of PGE2 and Wnt signaling regulates developmental specification of stem cells and regeneration. Cell 136, 1136-1147.

Kloxin, A. M., Kasko, A. M., Salinas, C. N., and Anseth, K. S. (2009). Photodegradable hydrogels for dynamic tuning of physical and chemical properties. Science 324, 59-63.

Koelling, S., Kruegel, J., Irmer, M., Path, J. R., Sadowski, B., Miro, X., and Miosge, N. (2009). Migratory chondrogenic progenitor cells from repair tissue during the later stages of human osteoarthritis. Cell Stem Cell 4, 324-335.

Mao, Y., Ge, X., Frank, C. L., Madison, J. M., Koehler, A. N., Doud, M. K., Tassa, C., Berry, E. M., Soda, T., Singh, K. K., et al. (2009). Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 regulates neuronal progenitor proliferation via modulation of GSK3beta/beta-catenin signaling. Cell 136, 1017-1031.

Peterkin, T., Gibson, A., and Patient, R. (2009). Common genetic control of haemangioblast and cardiac development in zebrafish. Development 136, 1465-1474.

Sato, T., Vries, R. G., Snippert, H. J., van de Wetering, M., Barker, N., Stange, D. E., van Es, J. H., Abo, A., Kujala, P., Peters, P. J., and Clevers, H. (2009). Single Lgr5 stem cells build crypt-villus structures in vitro without a mesenchymal niche. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07935.

Ware, C. B., Wang, L., Mecham, B. H., Shen, L., Nelson, A. M., Bar, M., Lamba, D. A., Dauphin, D. S., Buckingham, B., Askari, B., et al. (2009). Histone deacetylase inhibition elicits an evolutionarily conserved self-renewal program in embryonic stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 4, 359-369.

Yechoor, V., Liu, V., Espiritu, C., Paul, A., Oka, K., Kojima, H., and Chan, L. (2009). Neurogenin3 is sufficient for transdetermination of hepatic progenitor cells into neo-islets in vivo but not transdifferentiation of hepatocytes. Dev Cell 16, 358-373.

Yu, J., Hu, K., Smuga-Otto, K., Tian, S., Stewart, R., Slukvin, II, and Thomson, J. A. (2009). Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Free of Vector and Transgene Sequences. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.1172482.

Zaruba, M. M., Theiss, H. D., Vallaster, M., Mehl, U., Brunner, S., David, R., Fischer, R., Krieg, L., Hirsch, E., Huber, B., et al. (2009). Synergy between CD26/DPP-IV inhibition and G-CSF improves cardiac function after acute myocardial infarction. Cell Stem Cell 4, 313-323.

Zou, K., Yuan, Z., Yang, Z., Luo, H., Sun, K., Zhou, L., Xiang, J., Shi, L., Yu, Q., Zhang, Y., et al. (2009). Production of offspring from a germline stem cell line derived from neonatal ovaries. Nat Cell Biol. doi:10.1038/ncb1869.

 

March 10, 2009

Commentary
Discussion on criteria that might be used to demonstrate that complete reprogramming of a given iPSC line has occurred, started in a Protocol Review on techniques used to generate new lines by Maherali and Hochedlinger (Cell Stem Cell 3, 595-605).

Daley, G. Q., Lensch, M. W., Jaenisch, R., Meissner, A., Plath, K., and Yamanaka, S. (2009). Broader implications of defining standards for the luripotency of iPSCs. Cell Stem Cell 4, 200-201.

Ellis, J., Bruneau, B. G., Keller, G., Lemischka, I. R., Nagy, A., Rossant, J., Srivastava, D., Zandstra, P. W., and Stanford, W. L. (2009). Alternative induced pluripotent stem cell characterization criteria for in vitro applications. Cell Stem Cell 4, 198-199.

Forum
Jordan, C. T. (2009). Cancer stem cells: controversial or just misunderstood? Cell Stem Cell 4, 203-205.

Articles
Amariglio, N., Hirshberg, A., Scheithauer, B. W., Cohen, Y., Loewenthal, R., Trakhtenbrot, L., Paz, N., Koren-Michowitz, M., Waldman, D., Leider-Trejo, L., et al. (2009). Donor-derived brain tumor following neural stem cell transplantation in an ataxia telangiectasia patient. PLoS Med 6, e1000029.

Bleau, A. M., Hambardzumyan, D., Ozawa, T., Fomchenko, E. I., Huse, J. T., Brennan, C. W., and Holland, E. C. (2009). PTEN/PI3K/Akt pathway regulates the side population phenotype and ABCG2 activity in glioma tumor stem-like cells. Cell Stem Cell 4, 226-235.

Blum, B., Bar-Nur, O., Golan-Lev, T., and Benvenisty, N. (2009). The anti-apoptotic gene survivin contributes to teratoma formation by human embryonic stem cells. Nat Biotechnol 27, 281-287.

Eilken, H. M., Nishikawa, S., and Schroeder, T. (2009). Continuous single-cell imaging of blood generation from haemogenic endothelium. Nature 457, 896-900.

Essers, M. A., Offner, S., Blanco-Bose, W. E., Waibler, Z., Kalinke, U., Duchosal, M. A., and Trumpp, A. (2009). IFNalpha activates dormant haematopoietic stem cells in vivo. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07815.

Guo, G., Yang, J., Nichols, J., Hall, J. S., Eyres, I., Mansfield, W., and Smith, A. (2009). Klf4 reverts developmentally programmed restriction of ground state pluripotency. Development 136, 1063-1069.

Kaji, K., Norrby, K., Paca, A., Mileikovsky, M., Mohseni, P., and Woltjen, K. (2009). Virus-free induction of pluripotency and subsequent excision of reprogramming factors. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07864.

Lim, D. A., Huang, Y. C., Swigut, T., Mirick, A. L., Garcia-Verdugo, J. M., Wysocka, J., Ernst, P., and Alvarez-Buylla, A. (2009). Chromatin remodelling factor Mll1 is essential for neurogenesis from postnatal neural stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07726.

Schwamborn, J. C., Berezikov, E., and Knoblich, J. A. (2009). The TRIM-NHL protein TRIM32 activates microRNAs and prevents self-renewal in mouse neural progenitors. Cell 136, 913-925.

Soldner, F., Hockemeyer, D., Beard, C., Gao, Q., Bell, G. W., Cook, E. G., Hargus, G., Blak, A., Cooper, O., Mitalipova, M., et al. (2009). Parkinson's disease patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells free of viral reprogramming factors. Cell 136, 964-977.

Tanaka, K. K., Hall, J. K., Troy, A. A., Cornelison, D. D., Majka, S. M., and Olwin, B. B. (2009). Syndecan-4-expressing muscle progenitor cells in the SP engraft as satellite cells during muscle regeneration. Cell Stem Cell 4, 217-225.

van der Flier, L. G., van Gijn, M. E., Hatzis, P., Kujala, P., Haegebarth, A., Stange, D. E., Begthel, H., van den Born, M., Guryev, V., Oving, I., et al. (2009). Transcription factor achaete scute-like 2 controls intestinal stem cell fate. Cell 136, 903-912.

Woltjen, K., Michael, I. P., Mohseni, P., Desai, R., Mileikovsky, M., Hamalainen, R., Cowling, R., Wang, W., Liu, P., Gertsenstein, M., et al. (2009). piggyBac transposition reprograms fibroblasts to induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07863.

Xie, W., Song, C., Young, N. L., Sperling, A. S., Xu, F., Sridharan, R., Conway, A. E., Garcia, B. A., Plath, K., Clark, A. T., and Grunstein, M. (2009). Histone h3 lysine 56 acetylation is linked to the core transcriptional network in human embryonic stem cells. Mol Cell 33, 417-427.


 

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February 10, 2009

p>Commentaries
Jennifer B. McCormick, J. B., Jason Owen-Smith, J., Christopher Thomas Scott, C. T. (2009). Distribution of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines: Who, When, and Where. Cell Stem Cell 4, 107-110

Lo, B., Parham, L., Broom, C., Cedars, M., Gates, E., Giudice, L., Halme, D. G., Hershon, W., Kriegstein, A., Kwok, P., Oberman, M., Roberts, C., Wagner, R., (2009). Importing Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived at Another Institution: Tailoring Review to Ethical Concerns. Cell Stem Cell 4, 115-123

Review
Gangaraju, V. K., and Lin, H. (2009). MicroRNAs: key regulators of stem cells. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 10, 116-125.

Reviews of recent literature
Kohn, D. B., and Candotti, F. (2009). Gene therapy fulfilling its promise. N Engl J Med 360, 518-521.
Commentary on Aiuti et al., 2009. N Engl J Med 360, 447-458.

Rameshwar, P. (2009). Casting doubt on the safety of "off-the-shelf" mesenchymal stem cells for cell therapy. Mol Ther 17, 216-218.
Commentary on Campeau et al., 2009. Mol Ther 17, 369-372.

Articles
Barroca, V., Lassalle, B., Coureuil, M., Louis, J. P., Le Page, F., Testart, J., Allemand, I., Riou, L., and Fouchet, P. (2009). Mouse differentiating spermatogonia can generate germinal stem cells in vivo. Nat Cell Biol 11, 190-196.

Chen, A. E., Egli, D., Niakan, K., Deng, J., Akutsu, H., Yamaki, M., Cowan, C., Fitz-Gerald, C., Zhang, K., Melton, D. A., and Eggan, K. (2009). Optimal Timing of Inner Cell Mass Isolation Increases the Efficiency of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation and Allows Generation of Sibling Cell Lines. Cell Stem Cell 4, 103-106.

Chung, Y., Bishop, C. E., Treff, N. R., Walker, S. J., Sandler, V. M., Becker, S., Klimanskaya, I., Wun, W. S., Dunn, R., Hall, R. M., et al. (2009). Reprogramming of Human Somatic Cells Using Human and Animal Oocytes. Cloning Stem Cells. doi: 10.1089/clo.2009.0004

Diehn, M., Cho, R. W., Lobo, N. A., Kalisky, T., Dorie, M. J., Kulp, A. N., Qian, D., Lam, J. S., Ailles, L. E., Wong, M., et al. (2009). Association of reactive oxygen species levels and radioresistance in cancer stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07733.

Greco, V., Chen, T., Rendl, M., Schober, M., Pasolli, H. A., Stokes, N., dela Cruz-Racelis, J., and Elaine Fuchs, E. (2009). A Two-Step Mechanism for Stem Cell Activation during Hair Regeneration. Cell Stem Cell 4, 155-169.

Guttman, M., Amit, I., Garber, M., French, C., Lin, M. F., Feldser, D., Huarte, M., Zuk, O., Carey, B. W., Cassady, J. P., et al. (2009). Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07672.

Kim, J. B., Sebastiano, V., Wu, G., Araúzo-Bravo, M. J., Sasse, P., Gentile, L., Ko, K., Ruau, D., Ehrich, M., van den Boom, D.,  et al. (2009). Oct4-Induced Pluripotency in Adult Neural Stem Cells. Cell 136, 411-419

Marion, R. M., Strati, K., Li, H., Tejera, A., Schoeftner, S., Ortega, S., Serrano, M., and Blasco. M. A. (2009). Telomeres Acquire Embryonic Stem Cell Characteristics in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 4, 141-154.

Sridharan, R., Tchieu, J., Mason, M. J., Yachechko, R., Kuoy, E., Horvath, S., Zhou, Q., and Plath, K. (2009). Role of the murine reprogramming factors in the induction of pluripotency. Cell 136, 364-377.

Wang, K., Beyhan, Z., Rodriguez, R. M., Ross, P. J., Lager, A. E., Kaiser, G. G., Chen, Y., and Cibelli, J. B. (2009). Bovine Ooplasm Partially Remodels Primate Somatic Nuclei following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. Cloning Stem Cells. doi:10.1089/clo.2008.0061

Wen, B., Wu, H., Shinkai, Y., Irizarry, R. A., and Feinberg, A. P. (2009). Large histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylated chromatin blocks distinguish differentiated from embryonic stem cells. Nat Genet 41, 246-250.

Werbowetski-Ogilvie, T. E., Bosse, M., Stewart, M., Schnerch, A., Ramos-Mejia, V., Rouleau, A., Wynder, T., Smith, M. J., Dingwall, S., Carter, T., et al. (2009). Characterization of human embryonic stem cells with features of neoplastic progression. Nat Biotechnol 27, 91-97.

Wu, D., Vu, Q., Nguyen, A., Stone, J. R., Stubbs, H., Kuhlmann, G., Sholl, L. M., and Iafrate, A. J. (2009). In situ genetic analysis of cellular chimerism. Nat Med 15, 215-219.

Zhao, C., Chen, A., Jamieson, C. H., Fereshteh, M., Abrahamsson, A., Blum, J., Kwon, H. Y., Kim, J., Chute, J. P., Rizzieri, D., et al. (2009). Hedgehog signalling is essential for maintenance of cancer stem cells in myeloid leukaemia. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07737.

 

January 13, 2009

Special issue
Science: Special Online Collection: Breakthrough of the Year 2008
Science has named Reprogramming as the Breakthrough of the Year 2008! Read more about key scientific advances of 2008, the breakdown of the year and predictions for the year ahead. Don’t miss the online extras including a podcast discussion on the key scientific advances of 2008 and a video on reprogramming featuring Shinya Yamanaka and George Daley.
Science (Dec. 19, 2008) 322, 1766- 1773

Interview series
Stem Cells have celebrated the 10th anniversary of human embryonic stem cells with a series of interviews with leaders in the field. The series began in November with an interview with James Thomson and continues in December with Alan Trounson and Rudolf Jaenisch. Look out for more in upcoming months.
http://www.stemcellsportal.com/celebrating-10-years-of-hesc-cell-lines/

Stem Cell Select
The Scientific Editor of Cell Stem Cell highlights recent themes in stem cell research as the field moves ever-forward toward translational applications.
Lilliehook, C. (2009). Stem Cell Select. Cell 136, 5-7

Preview
Ahrlund-Richter, L., De Luca, M., Marshak, D. R., Munsie, M., Veiga, A., and Rao, M. (2009). Isolation and production of cells suitable for human therapy: challenges ahead. Cell Stem Cell 4, 20-26.

Review of recent literature
Trounson, A. (2009). Rats, cats, and elephants, but still no unicorn: induced pluripotent stem cells from new species. Cell Stem Cell 4, 3-4.
Commentary on: Liao, J. et al. (2008) Cell Stem Cell 4, 11-15 and Liu, H. et al. Cell Stem Cell 4, 16-19

Articles
Barker, N., Ridgway, R. A., van Es, J. H., van de Wetering, M., Begthel, H., van den Born, M., Danenberg, E., Clarke, A. R., Sansom, O. J., and Clevers, H. (2008). Crypt stem cells as the cells-of-origin of intestinal cancer. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07602.

Buehr, M., Meek, S., Blair, K., Yang, J., Ure, J., Silva, J., McLay, R., Hall, J., Ying, Q. L., and Smith, A. (2008). Capture of authentic embryonic stem cells from rat blastocysts. Cell 135, 1287-1298.

Chan, C. K., Chen, C. C., Luppen, C. A., Kim, J. B., Deboer, A. T., Wei, K., Helms, J. A., Kuo, C. J., Kraft, D. L., and Weissman, I. L. (2008). Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07547.

Colmone, A., Amorim, M., Pontier, A. L., Wang, S., Jablonski, E., and Sipkins, D. A. (2008). Leukemic cells create bone marrow niches that disrupt the behavior of normal hematopoietic progenitor cells. Science 322, 1861-1865.

Ebert, A. D., Yu, J., Rose, F. F., Jr., Mattis, V. B., Lorson, C. L., Thomson, J. A., and Svendsen, C. N. (2008). Induced pluripotent stem cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07677.

Foudi, A., Hochedlinger, K., Van Buren, D., Schindler, J. W., Jaenisch, R., Carey, V., and Hock, H. (2009). Analysis of histone 2B-GFP retention reveals slowly cycling hematopoietic stem cells. Nat Biotechnol 27, 84-90.

Lamba, D. A., Gust, J., and Reh, T. A. (2009). Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived photoreceptors restores some visual function in crx-deficient mice. Cell Stem Cell 4, 73-79. (PDF)

Li, P., Tong, C., Mehrian-Shai, R., Jia, L., Wu, N., Yan, Y., Maxson, R. E., Schulze, E. N., Song, H., Hsieh, C. L., et al. (2008). Germline competent embryonic stem cells derived from rat blastocysts. Cell 135, 1299-1310.

 

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Rai, K., Huggins, I. J., James, S. R., Karpf, A. R., Jones, D. A., and Cairns, B. R. (2008). DNA demethylation in zebrafish involves the coupling of a deaminase, a glycosylase, and gadd45. Cell 135, 1201-1212.

Sommer, C. A., Stadtfeld, M., Murphy, G. J., Hochedlinger, K., Kotton, D. N., and Mostoslavsky, G. (2008). iPS Cell Generation Using a Single Lentiviral Stem Cell Cassette. Stem Cells. doi:10.1634/stemcells.2008-1075.

Viale, A., De Franco, F., Orleth, A., Cambiaghi, V., Giuliani, V., Bossi, D., Ronchini, C., Ronzoni, S., Muradore, I., Monestiroli, S., et al. (2009). Cell-cycle restriction limits DNA damage and maintains self-renewal of leukaemia stem cells. Nature 457, 51-56.

Wilson, A., Laurenti, E., Oser, G., van der Wath, R. C., Blanco-Bose, W., Jaworski, M., Offner, S., Dunant, C. F., Eshkind, L., Bockamp, E., et al. (2008). Hematopoietic stem cells reversibly switch from dormancy to self-renewal during homeostasis and repair. Cell 135, 1118-1129.

Zhu, L., Gibson, P., Currle, D. S., Tong, Y., Richardson, R. J., Bayazitov, I. T., Poppleton, H., Zakharenko, S., Ellison, D. W., and Gilbertson, R. J. (2008). Prominin 1 marks intestinal stem cells that are susceptible to neoplastic transformation. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07589.

 


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