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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a severe genetic disease caused by mutations in the ACVR1 gene for which there is currently no effective therapy. Therefore, obtaining iPSCs for further modeling and development of treatment methods, including gene therapy, can be very promising. The authors herein describe the generation of the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) line RCMGi014-A from urinary sediment cells of a patient with clinically expressed and genetically proven (ACVR1:c.6176G>A) FOP. These iPSCs proliferate in dense monolayer cell colonies, have a normal karyotype (46,XY), express pluripotency markers (OCT4, SOX2, TRA-1-60, SSEA-4), and show the ability to differentiate into three germ layers, which confirms their pluripotent status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We generated two human induced pluripotency stem cell (hiPSC) lines, RCMGi011-A and 11-B, from skin fibroblast from patient with Mucopolysaccharidosis IV B type and autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss 12 using non-integrating, viral CytoTune™-iPS 2.0 Sendai Reprogramming Kit. We verified variant c.808 T > G and insertion in GLB1 gene, as well as two mutations, c.6992 T > C and c.805C > T, in CDH23 gene which lead to autosomal recessive hearing loss type 12. We have demonstrated normal karyotype of hiPSCs and capacity for cell differentiation into three germ layers., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

The review summarizes the results of studying the space and simulated microgravity effects on cell-to-cell interactions in three models: 1) interaction of a human lymphocytes culture with a subinoculated suspension culture of tumor myeloblasts K-562; 2) formation of embryoid bodies and differentiation of mice embryonic stem cells (ESCs); 3) gene differentiation and expression in multipotent mesenchymal cells (MCSs) obtained from the human marrow. It was shown that microgravity modifies the cell-to-cell interactions without cell contact inhibition; however, micro-g causes reversible changes in expression of genes responsible for regulation of the cytoskeleton, focal adhesion proteins, and some cytokines. Prolonged exposure of progenitor cells in simulated microgravity inhibits the differentiation processes of and reprofiles significantly expression of the genes that control various cell activities, including cell-to-cell interactions.

Autooscillation of the surface tension is a phenomenon related to Marangoni instability periodically arising and fading by dissolution of a surfactant droplet under a water-air interface. A detailed experimental investigation was performed to clear up the influence of the system geometry on development and characteristics of autooscillations. It was found that the aspect ratio is an additional dimensionless parameter that determines the system behavior equally to the Marangoni number. The influence of the cell diameter, capillary immersion depth, and droplet radius on the autooscillation period and amplitude was studied as well.