What Can hiPSC-Cardiomyocytes Teach Us about Modeling Complex Human Disease Phenotypes?

Broeckel, Ulrich · Cell Stem Cell · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to predict patient-specific responses to drug treatments requires that they maintain inter-individual variability for RNA expression and recapitulate phenotypic responses in vitro. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Matsa et al. (2016) show that expression differences between hiPSC-cardiomyocytes provide a personalized drug testing platform to evaluate potential efficacy and cardiotoxicity.

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