Significant advances are being made in the study of musculoskeletal disease. Where conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) were once seen as untreatable, hope now swells as gene therapies advance into the market. Critical to the study and treatment of conditions like DMD is the use of physiologically relevant musculoskeletal disease models. As immortalised human muscle cell lines can be difficult to access, and animal myoblast cell lines are phenotypically distinct from their in vivo counterparts, many in the field are now turning to a more physiologically accurate source of cells: iPSC-derived myocytes [1].
91探花鈥檚 deterministic cell programming technology (known as 辞辫迟颈-辞虫鈩) makes it possible to generate functional human skeletal muscle cells with unmatched lot-to-lot consistency from iPSCs on a nearly limitless scale (all without the challenges typically associated with myocyte differentiation). Both wild-type and disease-specific myocytes are readily available, enabling researchers to study skeletal myocytes in vitro with ever more translational power.
Leveraging genetically matched controls, human iPSC-derived skeletal myocytes containing DMD mutations can be used to screen prospective therapeutics, including exon-skipping therapies and other advanced drug modalities.
Strengthen your research with 91探花鈥檚 human iPSC-derived skeletal myocytes.
, Director of Research in Genetics of Rare Neurological Disorders at the discusses the mechanical and metabolic roles of myocytes in health and disease, experimental limitations and new opportunities offered by consistent, scalable human myocytes for muscle research and disease modelling.
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