Developmental biology: Skeletal muscle comes of age - pp584 - 585
Terry Partridge
A regulatory protein thought to be crucial for maintaining the muscle stem-cell pool throughout life is shown to be dispensable in the adult. Muscle biologists are left wondering what fundamental things apply as time goes by.
Published online: 29 July 2009; doi:10.1038/460584a
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Early heart muscle cells identified
Jane Qiu
Mouse studies could one day aid human heart transplants.
Published online: 29 May 2009; doi:10.1038/news.2009.522
A wicked gene shrinks numbers of germline stem cells
Simone Alves
Ribosome biogenesis regulates asymmetric growth and self-renewal of these cells in Drosophila
Published online: 28 May 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.77
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Capturing the human methylome - pp320 - 321
Nicole Rusk
Pairing bisulfite conversion of the human genome with targeted enrichment and high-throughput sequencing allows a quantitative assessment of DNA methylation at base-pair resolution.
doi:10.1038/nmeth0509-320a
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Human heart progenitors identified
Single progenitor generates diverse lineages
Published online: 02 July 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.93
Mother of all heart cells
Monya Baker
Clues about how human hearts form hint at routes to cell-based therapies.
Published online: 30 July 2009; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.102
