Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Functional Lung Alveolar Epithelial Cells

Jacob et al. differentiate human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) into type II alveolar cells (iAEC2s). They find that iAEC2s display many of the functions, transcriptomic features, and surfactant-processing capacities that characterize primary cells. Finally, they derive AEC2s from gene-edited, patient-specific PSCs to model surfactant protein B deficiency in vitro.

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