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ScholarlyArticle: "Derivation of functional retinal endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells for therapeutics and modelling" (2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01712-9
Things that leapfrog over induced pluripotency: TNT Tissue-Nanotransfection (stroma reprogramming),
From "MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310706 .. https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-into... :
"Proliferation history and transcription factor levels drive direct conversion to motor neurons" (2025) https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/abstract/S2405-4712(25)000...
Infrared light stimulates neuronal growth and blue and green inhibit neuronal growth; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087954
"Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732782 ; and is plasticity neurogenesis? Does boosting neurogenesis improve iPSC outcomes?
ScholarlyArticle: "Derivation of functional retinal endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells for therapeutics and modelling" (2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01712-9
Things that leapfrog over induced pluripotency: TNT Tissue-Nanotransfection (stroma reprogramming),
From "MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310706 .. https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-into... :
"Proliferation history and transcription factor levels drive direct conversion to motor neurons" (2025) https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/abstract/S2405-4712(25)000...
Infrared light stimulates neuronal growth and blue and green inhibit neuronal growth; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087954
"Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732782 ; and is plasticity neurogenesis? Does boosting neurogenesis improve iPSC outcomes?