Stem cell lines make the grade
Simone Alves
Clinical-grade human embryonic stem cell lines generated
Published online: 29 November 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.122
Cultured ES cells come unstuck
Natalie DeWitt
A clinically approved kinase inhibitor can stop human ES cells from clumping, and should make them easier to grow.
Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.1
Parsing pluripotency: the role of Sox2
Natalie DeWitt
Sox2, a protein known to be necessary to keep embryonic stem cells from differentiating, does so by an unexpected mechanism.
Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.8
A theological argument for chimeras
Ted Peters
On what theological grounds would one protect the line between species?
Published online: 14 June 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.31
A conversation with Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Monya Baker
Dolly the sheep came not from the union of sperm and egg but from the mammary cell of one sheep and the unfertilized egg of another. Her birth, more than 10 years ago showed that nuclei from specialized adult cells can be reprogrammed into all the cells of an organism.
Published online: 07 June 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.5
A Rosa by any other gene
Elie Dolgin
The ROSA26 locus provides a platform for adding genes to human embryonic stem cells
Published online: 13 December 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.127
Thinking in three dimensions
Bryn Nelson
Some stem cell researchers think conventional culture falls flat
Published online: 06 December 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.120
New stem cell line shows roots of retardation
Elie Dolgin
Differentiation holds clue to fragile X syndrome
Published online: 21 November 2007; doi:10.1038/stemcells.2007.121
Quantum dots: A new designer label
Ai Lin Chun
Quantum dots tagged with cholera toxin can label just about any mammalian cell type
Published online: 10 August 2007; doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.271
