Stem Cell in Medicine

<p>Preface</p> <p>Akon Higuchi, Yinghong Zhou and Shih-Hwa Chiou</p> <ol> <p> <li>Introduction to stem cells </li> <p>Zeyu Tian, Tao Yu, Jun Liu, Ting Wang, and Akon Higuchi</p> <p> <li>Engineered adult stem cells: current clinical trials status of disease treatment</li> <p>Pingping Han, Corey Stephan Moran, Chun Liu, Rebecca Griffiths, Yinghong Zhou, and </p> <p>Sašo Ivanovski</p> <p> <li>Xeno-free culture and proliferation of hPSCs on 2D biomaterials</li> <p>Ting Wang, Tao Yu, Chang-Yen Tsai, Zhao-Yu Hong, Wen-Hui Chao, Yi-Shuo Su, Suresh Kumar Subbiah, Remya Rajan Renuka, Shih-Tien Hsu, Gwo-Jang Wu, and Akon Higuchi</p> <p> <li>Stem cell culture and differentiation in 3-D scaffolds</li> <p>Yasuhiko Tabata, Idaszek Joanna, and Akon Higuchi</p> <p> <li>Current trends and promising clinical utility of IPSC-derived MSC (iMSC)</li> <p>Shih-Hwa Chiou, Alan Han Kiat Ong , Shih-Jie Chou, Ahmed Faris Aldoghachi, Jit Kai Loh, Nalini Devi Verusingam, </p> <p>Yi-Ping Yang, and Yueh Chien</p> <p> <li>Drug metabolic activity as a selection factor for pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatic progenitor cells</li> <p>Saeko Akiyama, Noriaki Saku, Shoko Miyata, Kenta Ite, Hidenori Nonaka, Masashi Toyoda, Akihide Kamiya, Tohru Kiyono, Tohru Kimura, Mureo Kasahara, and Akihiro Umezawa</p> <p> <li>Cardiac cell sheet engineering for regenerative medicine and tissue modeling</li> <p>Katsuhisa Matsuura and Tatsuya Shimizu</p> <p> <li>Mesenchymal stem cells in osteoarthritis: The need for translation into clinical therapy</li> <p>Feng Gao, Xinzhan Mao, and Xiaoxin Wu</p> <p> <li>hPSC-derived RPE transplantation for the treatment of macular degeneration</li> <p>Qian Liu, Jun Liu, and Akon Higuchi</p> <p> <li>Universal and hypoimmunogenic pluripotent stem cells for clinical usage</li> <p>Tzu-Cheng Sung, Kailibinuer Maitiruze, Jiandong Pan,</p> <p>Jian Gong, Yongheng Bai, Xiaodong Pan, and Akon Higuchi</p> <p> <li>Clinical Usage of Dental Stem Cells and Their Derived Extracellular Vesicles</li> <p>Yinghong Zhou, Tian Xu, Cong Wang, Pingping Han, and Sašo Ivanovski</p> <p> <li>Vascularization of cutaneous wounds by stem cells</li> <p>Motaharesadat Hosseini and Abbas Shafiee</p> <p> <li>Application of IPSC and Müller glia derivatives in retinal degenerative diseases</li> <p>Guoge Han, Pinghui Wei, and Quanhong Han</p> <p> <li>Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes</li> <p>Bernard E. Tuch, Iris S. Cheng, Hoang Phuc Dang, Hui Chen, and Tim R. Dargaville</p> <p> <li>Stem cell challenges and opportunities</li> </ol> <p>Kenta Ite, Masashi Toyoda, Saeko Akiyama, Shin Enosawa, Saeko Yoshioka, </p> <p>Takaaki Yukitake, Mayu Yamazaki-Inoue, Kuniko Tatsumi, Hidenori Akutsu, Hiroshi Nishina, Toru Kimura, Naoko Otani, Atsuko Nakazawa, Akinari Fukuda, Mureo Kasahara, and Akihiro Umezawa</p>