http://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/f40876aadc6a368d2e9f2bd2cc09bce3.pdf c1703c6ab381bb8cc2dee167353a090d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transgene Delivery to Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Nanoparticles Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Megan A. Yamoah, Phung N. Thai, Xiao-Dong Zhang Description An account of the resource Human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) and HiPSCs-derived cells have the potential to revolutionize regenerative and precision medicine. Genetically reprograming somatic cells to generate HiPSCs and genetic modification of HiPSCs are considered the key procedures for the study and application of HiPSCs. However, there are significant technical challenges for transgene delivery into somatic cells and HiPSCs since these cells are known to be difficult to transfect. The existing methods, such as viral transduction and chemical transfection, may introduce significant alternations to hiPSC culture which affect the potency, purity, consistency, safety, and functional capacity of HiPSCs. Therefore, generation and genetic modification of HiPSCs through non-viral approaches are necessary and desirable. Nanotechnology has revolutionized fields from astrophysics to biology over the past two decades. Increasingly, nanoparticles have been used in biomedicine as powerful tools for transgene and drug delivery, imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The most successful example is the recent development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines at warp speed to combat the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which brought nanoparticles to the center stage of biomedicine and demonstrated the efficient nanoparticle-mediated transgene delivery into human body. Nanoparticles have the potential to facilitate the transgene delivery into the HiPSCs and offer a simple and robust approach. Nanoparticle-mediated transgene delivery has significant advantages over other methods, such as high efficiency, low cytotoxicity, biodegradability, low cost, directional and distal controllability, efficient in vivo applications, and lack of immune responses. Our recent study using magnetic nanoparticles for transfection of HiPSCs provided an example of the successful applications, supporting the potential roles of nanoparticles in hiPSC biology. This review discusses the principle, applications, and significance of nanoparticles in the transgene delivery to HiPSCs and their successful application in the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Subject The topic of the resource Transfection, nanoparticles, Magnetic Nanoparticles, transgene, Human induced pluripotent stem cells, human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived cardiomyocytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10.3390/ph14040334 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Epidemiology and Health Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Korean Society of Epidemiology Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Medicine, Pharmacy and materia medica