Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Large-scale production of megakaryocytes from human pluripotent stem cells by chemically defined forward programming

  • Thomas Moreau,
  • Amanda L. Evans,
  • Louella Vasquez,
  • Marloes R. Tijssen,
  • Ying Yan,
  • Matthew W. Trotter,
  • Daniel Howard,
  • Maria Colzani,
  • Meera Arumugam,
  • Wing Han Wu,
  • Amanda Dalby,
  • Riina Lampela,
  • Guenaelle Bouet,
  • Catherine M. Hobbs,
  • Dean C. Pask,
  • Holly Payne,
  • Tatyana Ponomaryov,
  • Alexander Brill,
  • Nicole Soranzo,
  • Willem H. Ouwehand,
  • Roger A. Pedersen,
  • Cedric Ghevaert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11208
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Platelets are blood circulating corpuscles generated from megakaryocytes that initiate wound healing. Here, Moreau et al. describe a way of producing large quantities of megakaryocytes from human pluripotent stem cells in the laboratory, moving us a step closer to manufacturing transfusion products.