Part I. Generation of Pluripotent Stem Cells
1. Sources and Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Michal Amit
2. A New Chemical Approach to the Efficient Generation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Hossein Baharvand and Seyedeh-Nafiseh Hassani
3. A Review of the Methods for Human iPSC Derivation
Nasir Malik and Mahendra S. Rao
4. Generation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Lentiviral Transduction
Jennifer C. Moore
5. Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells with CytoTune, a Non-Integrating Sendai Virus
Pauline T. Lieu, Andrew Fontes, Mohan C. Vemuri, and Chad C. MacArthur
6. Generation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) using Episomal Vectors on Defined Essential 8TM Medium Conditions
Andrew Fontes, Chad C. MacArthur, Pauline T. Lieu, and Mohan C. Vemuri
7. Feeder-free Substrates for Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture
Alexandria Sams and Mark J. Powers
Part II. Culture and Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells
8. Methods for Culturing Human Embryonic Stem Cells on Feeders
Jasmeet Kaur and Mary Lynn Tilkins
9. Methods for Culturing Human Embryonic Stem Cells in a Xeno-Free System
Jasmeet Kaur, Mary Lynn Tilkins, and Shayne Boucher
10. Directed Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Along the Pancreatic Endocrine Lineage
Dennis Van Hoof and Muluye E. Liku
11. Directed Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells to Functional Hepatocytes
Philip Roelandt, Jolien Vanhove, and Catherine Verfaillie
12. Highly Efficient Directed Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Cardiomyocytes
Paul W. Burridge and Elias T. Zambidis
13. Generation of iPSC Lines from Human Normal and Neoplastic Blood Cells Using Episomal Vectors
Kejin Hu and Igor Slukvin
Part III. Pluripotent Stem Cell Characterization
14. Cellular Characterization of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Rene H. Quintanilla Jr.
15. TaqMan(R) OpenArray(R) High Throughput Transcriptional Analysis of Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Sunali N. Patel, Yalei Wu, Yun Bao, Ricardo Mancebo, Janice Au-Young, and Elena Grigorenko
16. Epigenome Analysis of Pluripotent Stem Cells
Christopher L. Ricupero, Mavis R. Swerdel, and Ronald P. Hart
17. Single Cell Gene Expression Analysis of Pluripotent Stem Cells
Ronald V. Abruzzese and Richard A. Fekete
18. Profiling Stem Cells Using Quantitative PCR Protein Assays
David Ruff and Pauline Lieu
Part IV. Pluripotent Stem Cell Modification and Applications
19. Labeled Stem Cells as Disease Models and in Drug Discovery
Catharina Ellerström, Raimund Strehl, and Johan Hyllner
20. Cloning Technologies
Andrew Fontes
21. Stable Transfection Using Episomal Vectors to Create Modified Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Yin Liu, Kate Wagner, and Uma Lakshmipathy
22. Site-Specific Integration in Human ESC Using Jump-In(TM) TI(TM) Technology
Chad C. MacArthur