Posters provide a visual overview of a topic in biology and can be viewed online as a high-resolution PDF. Find below a selection of Posters produced by the Nature Reviews journals on stem cell topics that are relevant to their applications in the clinic.
Cell-reprogramming technology and neuroscience
Maria C. Marchetto and Fred H. Gage
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Jul 2015
Produced with support from STEMCELL Technologies
This poster illustrates the principles through which cell-reprogramming technology can be used to generate distinct types of neural cells and outlines the most promising applications of these cells in neuroscientific research.
Stem cell states: naive to primed pluripotency
Leehee Weinberger, Yair S. Manor and Jacob H. Hanna
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Jul 2015
Produced with support from STEMCELL Technologies
This Poster provides an overview of the signalling pathways currently known to promote or suppress the naive and primed pluripotency states in mice, and highlights potential differences between mice and humans. It also provides an overview of culture conditions that confer naive and/or primed features to cells.
From teratomas to embryonic stem cells: discovering pluripotency
Peter W. Andrews and Paul J. Gokhale
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Oct 2011
Produced with support from Abcam
This Poster provides a timeline overview of the history of pluripotency, starting from early studies of teratocarcinomas in 1954, which preceded the isolation of mouse and human embryonic stem cells (ES cells), and ending with the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). In doing so, it highlights how our understanding of the pluripotent state has evolved over almost 60 years.
The identity and properties of mesenchymal stem cells
César Nombela-Arrieta and Leslie E. Silberstein
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Jun 2011
Produced with support from STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
This Poster provides an overview of the identity of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vivo and the effects of their in vitro-expanded progeny, and highlights key questions that remain in the field regarding the biology of these elusive cells.
Strategies to increase pancreatic β-cell mass and function
Amedeo Vetere, Amit Choudhary and Bridget K. Wagner
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery - Sep 2013
Produced with support from Novo Nordisk
This Poster illustrates small-molecule approaches that are being investigated to therapeutically increase insulin-producing β-cell mass and function, including the induction of β-cell proliferation and insulin secretion, the reprogramming of closely related cell types to β-cells, or protection from apoptosis.