From stealing fire to cellular reprogramming: A scientific history leading to the 2012 Nobel Prize

Stem Cell Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-17

  Lensch, M William ^a,b,c   Mummery, Christine L ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BETA TUBULIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLONY FORMATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL RESEARCH; THROMBOCYTOPOIESIS; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; ART; AWARDS AND PRIZES; HISTORY;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NOBEL PRIZE; STEM CELL RESEARCH;

EID: 84881460692     PISSN: 22136711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2013.05.001     Document Type: Review

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