UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel protocol for generating nearly pure retinal progenitors (PAX6/VSX2 positive cells) without contamination by forebrain cells. Retinas develops from precurs...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a blood-brain barrier (BBB) model with in vivo-like BBB transcytosis properties using a new method that improves the fidelity of highly selective, cross-barrier ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for using mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC)-derived exosomes to promote ligament and tendon healing, including improvements to the mechanical properties of t...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for isolating bovine embryonic stem cells (bESCs), expanding them in feeder-free and serum-free conditions, and differentiating them into adipocytes.
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A UW-Madison researcher has discovered two cell surface biomarkers that can be used to distinguish older and newer MSCs in patient samples, which facilitates the separation of newer MSCs for therapeut...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed an improved method for generating astrocyte cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The new protocol is fast (15-20 days in culture) and produces ~100%...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a reporter cell line for identifying compounds that promote endothelial cell differentiation and nitric oxide production and identified four compounds that promot...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered a cell-surface marker (CD166) that can be used to distinguish (and purify) cells that are immature (early) cone photoreceptor precursor cells (CPPs), which will ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for deriving right ventricle-like cardiomyocytes from second heart field (SHF) cardiac progenitors. The addition of insulin or the inhibition of endogenou...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for generating arterial hemogenic endothelium and hematopoietic progenitors using a 3D spheroid (75-150mM) “hanging drop” method, and they found enhan...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered that inducing SOX18 expression in hPSCs during hematopoietic differentiation promotes specification and expansion of erythromyeloid progenitors, megakaryocytes a...
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Su-Chun Zhang, a world-renowned neuroscientist and pioneer in stem cell research, has developed a method for printing neural tissues that allows cells to form neural networks in vitro. The human brain...
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A research collaboration between UW-Madison and the University of Bern has resulted in a new protocol for generating cells that can be used to better model the response and behavior of immune cells in...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered that using allogenic arterial endothelial cells (not genetically modified to alter the immune response) perform better than hypoimmunogenic cells for producing s...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for preparing PTP1b-deficient neutrophils, which exhibit improved recruitment and antimicrobial functions. The inventors employed CRISPR/Cas9 to delete PT...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for generating SIRPα-KO macrophages with superior anti-tumor activity, and SIRPα-knockout neutrophils with superior anti-bacterial and anti-tumor activi...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a Rhesus Macaque induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line, called the Rh2431 iPSC line. 
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a Cynomolgus Macaque induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line, called the cy0657 iPSC line.
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a simple and versatile method to spatially pattern hPSC differentiations via localized adsorption of morphogens on substrates. Morphogens including BMP4, noggin, ...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered a novel marker in cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts that reliably predicts extracellular matrix production in cultured cardiac fibroblasts. Sushi Domain Con...
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The inventors have developed a novel system for co-differentiation of hepatocytes and hematopoietic progenitors from human embryonic stem cells (ES cells) that mimics a late fetal liver undergoing hem...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a defined and efficient method to direct the differentiation of epicardial cells to produce cardiac fibroblast cells. This builds on Dr. Palacek’s prior innovat...
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Provided herein are methods and compositions for inducing chemical senescence in neurons and methods of using chemically induced senescent neurons for modeling neurodegenerative disease and drug disco...
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Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, neuromesodermal progenitors, and neural stem cells into bioengineered elliptical neur...
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Methods for obtaining populations of norepinephrine (NE) neuronal progenitor cells and creating enriched populations of NE neurons are provided herein. Also provided herein are methods for obtaining g...
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