Embryonic Stem Cells Create Bone and Heart Tissue
August 30, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
Stem cell biologists at Stanford and in Singapore have been able to map the check points at which populations of pluripotent, embryonic cells differentiate into bone, cartilage and heart tissue. As this piece describes, “At each developmental stage, the researchers conducted single-cell RNA sequencing to identify unique gene expression patterns and assess the purity of individual cell populations. By looking at the gene expression profile in single cells, the researchers were able to identify previously unknown transient states that typified the progression from precursor to more-specialized cells.” MORE
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