Pentao Liu at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and his team developed the stem cells from cells taken from early mouse embryos. (newscientist.com)
By studying early mouse embryo neural stem cells in a petri dish, Lu and his colleagues discovered that a protein called SMEK1 promotes the differentiation of neural stem and progenitor cells. (sciencedaily.com)
Last year, Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Worcester, Massachusetts, and his colleagues reported that they had found a way to culture a single cell from an early mouse embryo so that it grew into a line of ES cells (ScienceNOW, 17 October 2005). (sciencemag.org)