The current invention concerns liver progenitor or stem cells, lysates thereof, and/or conditioned medium obtainable by culturing liver progenitor or stem cells in said medium for use in the treatment of diseases and/or conditions caused by increased vascular permeability or for use in restoring the vascular integrity of cells and tissues in a subject following inflammation and/or infection in said subject. More particularly, the present invention relates to liver progenitor or stem cells or conditioned medium obtainable by culturing liver progenitor or stem cells in said medium for therapeutic use in sepsis and sepsis-induced diseases, such as myocardial edema, acute kidney injury and lung sepsis.

The present invention provides a means for reconstituting tissues and organs having mature functions. A method of preparing a tissue or an organ, comprising coculturing an organ cell with a vascular endothelial cell and a mesenchymal cell, generating an organ bud, transplanting the organ bud into a non-human animal, and then isolating from the non-human animal the transplanted organ bud-derived tissue or organ.

The present invention provides a composition that is for treating myogenic diseases and that contains a cell group including skeletal muscle precursor cells differentiation-induced from pluripotent stem cells, the composition being characterized in that the cell group includes the skeletal muscle precursor cells that are Pax7-positive, and are CD146 (MCAM)-positive and CD57-negative on the surface thereof. The present invention also provides a method for purifying skeletal muscle precursor cells.

The invention relates to improved culture methods for expanding epithelial stem cells and obtaining organoids, to culture media involved in said methods, and to uses of said organoids.

An exemplary method can be provided for producing ureteric bud cells from pluripotent stem cells, in vitro. Further, an exemplary method can be provided for producing ureteric bud cells and Wolffian duct (WD) progenitor-like cells that are a progenitor of the ureteric bud cells. Another exemplary method can be provided for producing Wolffian duct (WD) progenitor-like cells that can comprise obtaining C-X-C chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) positive and KIT proto-oncogene receptor tyrosine kinase (KIT) positive cells. In addition, an exemplary method can be provided for producing ureteric-bud-like cells using WD progenitors that are CXCR4+ and KIT+, and another exemplary method can be provided for producing kidney organoids in which the ureteric-bud-like cells can be used.

Disclosed herein are cell cultures and enriched cell populations of endocrine precursor cells, immature pancreatic hormone-expressing cells and mature pancreatic hormone-expressing cells. Also disclosed herein are methods of producing such cell cultures and cell populations.

Methods for producing hepatocytes from pluripotent human stem cells are disclosed herein. The stem cells are plated on a cell culture substrate comprising two laminins. The stem cells are then exposed to different cell culture mediums to induce differentiation. The resulting hepatocytes have higher metabolic capacity compared to hepatocytes cultured on different substrates.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a cell having a genetic defect corrected, and a cell therapy agent comprising the cell, and, more particularly, to a method for producing a cell and a cell therapy agent comprising the cell, which comprise a method for isolating a cell from an individual, producing a chemically derived progenitor cell by processing a compound, and then correcting a mutant gene ex vivo.

The cell therapy agent of the present invention has significantly less side effects such as an off-target effect and tumor generation, and has shown a Tyrosinemia type I treatment effect that is more significant than when a simple cell is transplanted, and thus, the cell therapy agent is expected to be widely usable in treatment fields for diseases caused by gene mutation, including Tyrosinemia type I.

The invention relates to culturing motor neuron cells together with skeletal muscle cells in a fluidic device under conditions whereby the interaction of these cells mimic the structure and function of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) providing a NMJ-on-chip. Good viability, formation of myo-fibers and function of skeletal muscle cells on fluidic chips allow for measurements of muscle cell contractions. Embodiments of motor neurons co-cultures with contractile myo-fibers are contemplated for use with modeling diseases affecting NMJ's, e.g. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Human pluripotent stem cells are differentiated in vitro into oligodendro-spheroids comprising oligodendrocytes for use in analysis, screening programs, and the like.