Stem cell bioengineering at the interface of systems-based models and high-throughput platforms

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 525-545

  Underhill, Gregory H ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOENGINEERING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL THERAPY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROENVIRONMENT; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL EXPANSION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84867612594     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1189     Document Type: Review

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