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Abstract| Volume 18, ISSUE 6, SUPPLEMENT , S7, June 2016

Characterization of the Impact and Mechanisms of Action of Pluripotent State on hPSC Suspension Expansion

  • Y. Lipsitz
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    Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • P.W. Zandstra
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    Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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      Clinical translation of novel human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-based therapies for a wide range of diseases will require robust, scalable bioreactor technologies to manufacturing large quantities of therapeutic cells. While mouse PSC yields in bioreactors are comparable to traditional adherent culture (>50 fold expansion over 4 days), translation of hPSCs to suspension yields only 3–6 fold expansion over 7 days. We hypothesize that this discrepancy results from a cell state difference: mouse PSCs exist in an earlier developmental “naïve” state which has enhanced bioprocessing properties relative to the later “primed” state in which hPSCs exist.
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