Big potential in rat pluripotent stem cells

Monya Baker

Rat pluripotent stem cells could bring knock-out rats, reprogramming insights, and a larger menagerie of stem cells.

Published online: 08 January 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.10

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Authentic rat embryonic stem cells

Monya Baker

Published online: 08 January 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.11

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Stalling cell division keeps leukaemia stem cells going

Monya Baker

The cell cycle inhibitor p21 gives cancer cells the chance to repair DNA

Published online: 08 January 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.13

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Robust embryonic stem cells may harbor precancerous surprises

Monya Baker

Particularly easy-to-culture ES cells resist differentiation

Published online: 08 January 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.14

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How brain activity makes new neurons

Monya Baker

Transient expression of a single gene has lasting effects on others

Published online: 08 January 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.15

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Stem cell therapies the old-fashioned way

Amber Dance

A biotech start-up sees stem cells as targets, not transplants

Published online: 30 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.161

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Tracking cancer to intestinal stem cells

Monya Baker

Two research teams follow cancer to its source

Published online: 30 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.162

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Weighing risks and rewards en route to the clinic

Christopher T Scott

Does stem cell therapy contain too many unknowns to move into human clinical trials?

Published online: 18 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.158

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Adult monkey cells reprogrammed

Jane Qiu

Mouse, human and monkey cells can be induced to pluripotency

Published online: 18 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.156

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Poising ES cells for differentiation

Monya Baker

The histone variant H2AZ cooperates with Polycomb proteins

Published online: 18 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.159

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How to make a stem cell home

Monya Baker

Making blood stem cell niches in vivo and in vitro

Published online: 18 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.160

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Stick to the guidelines and fewer get hurt

Monya Baker

The ISSCR hopes its handbook will prompt regulators and governments to shut shady clinics

Published online: 11 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.157

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Human mammary glands in mice

Simone Alves

A new technique identifies regenerative cells

Published online: 11 December 2008; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2008.155

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