Concurrent Session 1
Cell Research (2008) 18:s17. doi: 10.1038/cr.2008.107; published online 4 August 2008
A new approach to generate tailed-sperm and oocytes in vitro from the same mouse embryonic stem cells
Lixin Feng1,
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Correspondence: Lixin Feng, fenglx66@yahoo.com
Lixin Feng, PhD in biochemistry (from Peking Union Medical College in 1996), Pricinpal Investigator, Institute for Medicine Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Dr Feng's research interests concern with the molecular mechanisms regulating the fate of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) and germline differentiation of embryonic stem cells. He revealed the signaling pathway that regulate the proliferation of SSCs as well as a new approach to derive both sperm and oocytes from embryonic stem cells in vitro.
Keywords:
embryonic stem cells, germ cells, sperm, oocytes, dazl
