Human stem cells harboring a suicide gene improve the safety and standardisation of neural transplants in Parkinsonian rats

Stem cell grafts present a risk of tissue overgrowth/tumors. Here, the authors utilise a human pluripotent stem cell line carrying a FailSafe suicide gene to not only ablate proliferative cells, but through timely gene activation, improve the purity of neural grafts in Parkinsonian rats.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Isabelle R. de Luzy, Kevin C. L. Law, Niamh Moriarty, Cameron P. J. Hunt, Jennifer C. Durnall, Lachlan H. Thompson, Andras Nagy, Clare L. Parish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23125-9