The Scientist : Genetic modification of mouse embryonic stem cells [20/12/2001]

Genetic modification of mouse embryonic stem cells

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011220-02

20 December 2001

The current method to create a chimeric murine embryo involves engrafting cells from a separate donor embryo. But, in December 10 online Nature Genetics, Pentao Liu and colleagues at The National Cancer Institute show that it is possible to engineer a mouse with cells that are genetically different from each other but are derived from the same embryonic stem cell.

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