Alternative Method for Obtaining Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines and Three-Dimensional Growth: A Simplified, Passage-Free Approach that Minimizes Labor

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Abstract (original English)

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) hold significant promise for numerous applications in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery. However, the conventional workflow for iPSC generation, with cells grown under two-dimensional conditions, presents several challenges, including the need for specialized scientific skills such as morphologically assessing and picking colonies and removing differentiated cells during the establishment phase. Furthermore, maintaining established iPSCs in three-dimensional culture systems, while offering scalability, necessitates an enzymatic dissociation step for their further growth in a complex and time-consuming protocol. In this study, we introduce a novel approach to address these challenges by reprogramming somatic cells grown under three-dimensional conditions as spheres using a bioreactor, thereby eliminating the need for two-dimensional culture and colony picking. The iPSCs generated in this study were maintained under three-dimensional conditions simply by transferring spheres to the next bioreactor, without the need for an enzymatic dissociation step. This streamlined method simplifies the workflow, reduces technical variability and labor, and paves the way for future advancements in iPSC research and its wider applications. Key features • Establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells in a three-dimensional environ

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Evidence from laboratory and animal studies provides groundwork for understanding mechanisms and potential before human studies continue.

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