This protocol details a monolayer, serum-free method to efficiently generate hepatocyte-like cells from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in 18 days. This entails six steps as hPSCs sequentially differentiate into intermediate cell-types such as the primitive streak, definitive endoderm, posterior foregut and liver bud progenitors before forming hepatocyte-like cells.
Loh, K. M., Palaria, A., Ang, L. T. Efficient Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Liver Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (148), e58975, doi:10.3791/58975 (2019).