The safety and application of induced pluripotent stem cells / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:Induced pluripotent stem cel technology have solved the contradiction between the ethics and immune rejection, and this high-efficient and safe technique is becoming the mainstream of today’s research. OBJECTIVE:To comprehensively review the safety and application of induced pluripotent stem cel s.METHODS:A computer-based online retrieval of PubMed and CNKI was performed to search relevant papers published from January 2006 to April 2016, with the key words of“induced pluripotent stem cel , reprogramming, clinical application, safety, transcription factor, disease mode”in English and Chinese, respectively. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:In recent years, research on induced pluripotent stem cel s has attracted much attention from the scientific community and the medical community, and this technique has successful y gained induced pluripotent stem cel s and overcome the problems of immunity and ethics. However, it is limited to the theoretical and laboratory research due to the inability to solve the safety, efficiency and re-differentiation mechanism of induced pluripotent stem cel s. Therefore, we are faced with enormous difficulties and chal enges, which involve al aspects of basic research, including how to safely and effectively induce the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cel s into the desired cel type and how to establish a suitable disease model as wel as a high-throughput drug screening platform.