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Protocol for the Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Mixed Cultures of Neurons and Glia for Neurotoxicity Testing
Published on: June 9, 2017
A bioinformatic assay for pluripotency in human cells
Franz-Josef Müller1, Bernhard M Schuldt, Roy Williams
1Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie, Kiel, Germany. fj.mueller@zip-kiel.de
Abstract:
Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are defined by their potential to generate all cell types of an organism. The standard assay for pluripotency of mouse PSCs is cell transmission through the germline, but for human PSCs researchers depend on indirect methods such as differentiation into teratomas in immunodeficient mice. Here we report PluriTest, a robust open-access bioinformatic assay of pluripotency in human cells based on their gene expression profiles.

