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Image of the Day: Morphing Cells
The Scientist
Staff, The Scientist Staff | Mar 27, 2018
By removing a single gene, researchers change the developmental fate of tumor cells in mice.
Stem Cells Made by Modifying the Epigenome with CRISPR
Abby Olena | Jan 25, 2018
Researchers use the technique to turn on
Oct4
or
Sox2
in mouse embryonic fibroblasts and convert them into pluripotent cells.
Researchers Make Knockout Stem Cell Lines in One Step
Ruth Williams | Dec 1, 2017
Combining gene editing and stem-cell induction improves efficiency of functional genetic analyses.
New Techniques Detail Embryos’ First Hours and Days
Jef Akst | Dec 1, 2017
New technologies reveal the dynamic changes in mouse and human embryos during the first week after fertilization.
Infographic: How Embryos Take Control of Their Own Development
Jef Akst | Nov 30, 2017
The switch from maternal factors involves dynamic reprogramming of the zygotic genome.
Partial Reprogramming Offers a Way to Generate High Volumes of Progenitor-Like Cells
Abby Olena | Nov 30, 2017
Activating genes for reprogramming factors for a short time transforms large numbers of differentiated cells into multipotent forms that could be useful for cell-based therapies.
CRISPR Used in Human Embryos to Probe Gene Function
Ashley P. Taylor | Sep 20, 2017
OCT4 is necessary for blastocyst formation in the human embryo, researchers report.
Stem Cells Made Waves in Biology and Medicine
Karen Zusi | Oct 1, 2016
Since their introduction to the lab, pluripotent stem cells have gone from research tool to therapeutic, but the journey has been rocky.
New Stem Cell Identified
Anna Azvolinsky | May 6, 2015
Researchers isolate an easy-to-manipulate, stable, and spatially distinct pluripotent cell type.
Peer Review of STAP Work Revealed
Kerry Grens | Sep 11, 2014
Early versions of two now-retracted stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency studies had been rejected before.