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2007 Literature
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December 11, 2007

The ISSCR pages in Cell Stem Cell:
Daley, G. Q. (2007). ISSCR: President’s Note. New Initiatives for the ISSCR. Cell Stem Cell 1, 513-514

A new stem cell journal:
The journal Stem Cell Research recently launched their first issue. Visit their Web site to view current and upcoming content—the first six issues will be freely available to all readers. The publishers would like to highlight the following paper from their inaugural issue:
van Laake, L. W., Passier, R., Monshouwer-Kloots, J., Verkleij, A. J., Lips, D. J., Freund, C., den Ouden, K., Ward-van Oostwaard, D., Korving, J., Tertoolen, L. G., et al. (2007). Human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes survive and mature in the mouse heart and transiently improve function after myocardial infarction. Stem Cell Research 1, 9-24.

Essay
Warnock, M. (2007). The ethical regulation of science. Nature 450, 615.

Review of recent literature:
Warren, S. T. (2007). The epigenetics of fragile X syndrome. Cell Stem Cell 1, 488
Commentary on Eiges et al., 2007 (see below)

Welner, R. S., and Kincade, P. W. (2007). Stem cells on patrol. Cell 131, 842-844.

Wilmut, I., and Taylor, J. (2007). Stem cells: primates join the club. Nature 450, 485-486.
Commentary on Byrne et al., 2007 (see below)

Zaehres, H., and Scholer, H. R. (2007). Induction of pluripotency: from mouse to human. Cell 131, 834-835.
Commentary on Yamanaka et al., 2007 (see below). See also Yu et al., 2007 and Nakagawa et al., 2007 (below).

Articles:
Byrne, J. A., Pedersen, D. A., Clepper, L. L., Nelson, M., Sanger, W. G., Gokhale, S., Wolf, D. P., and Mitalipov, S. M. (2007). Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature 450, 497-502.

Crook, J. M., Peura, T. T., Kravets, L., Bosman, A. G., Buzzard, J. J., Horne, R., Hentze, H., Dunn, N. R., Zweigerdt, R., Chua, F., et al. (2007). The Generation of Six Clinical-Grade Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines. Cell Stem Cell 1, 490-494.

Czechowicz, A., Kraft, D., Weissman, I. L., and Bhattacharya, D. (2007). Efficient transplantation via antibody-based clearance of hematopoietic stem cell niches. Science 318, 1296-1299.

Eiges, R., Urbach, A., Malcov, M., Frumkin, T., Schwartz, T., Amit, A., Yaron, Y., Eden, A., Yanuka, O., Benvenisty, N., et al. (2007). Developmental Study of Fragile X Syndrome Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived from Preimplantation Genetically Diagnosed Embryos. Cell Stem Cell 1, 568-577.

Hanna, J., Wernig, M., Markoulaki, S., Sun, C. W., Meissner, A., Cassady, J. P., Beard, C., Brambrink, T., Wu, L. C., Townes, T. M., and Jaenisch, R. (2007). Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia Mouse Model with iPS Cells Generated from Autologous Skin. Science. Doi:10.1126/science.1152092

Liu, L., Bailey, S. M., Okuka, M., Munoz, P., Li, C., Zhou, L., Wu, C., Czerwiec, E., Sandler, L., Seyfang, A., et al. (2007). Telomere lengthening early in development. Nat Cell Biol 9, 1436-1441.

Manganas, L. N., Zhang, X., Li, Y., Hazel, R. D., Smith, S. D., Wagshul, M. E., Henn, F., Benveniste, H., Djuric, P. M., Enikolopov, G., and Maletic-Savatic, M. (2007). Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain. Science 318, 980-985.

Massberg, S., Schaerli, P., Knezevic-Maramica, I., Kollnberger, M., Tubo, N., Moseman, E. A., Huff, I. V., Junt, T., Wagers, A. J., Mazo, I. B., and von Andrian, U. H. (2007). Immunosurveillance by Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Trafficking through Blood, Lymph, and Peripheral Tissues. Cell 131, 994-1008.

Nakagawa, M., Koyanagi, M., Tanabe, K., Takahashi, K., Ichisaka, T., Aoi, T., Okita, K., Mochiduki, Y., Takizawa, N., and Yamanaka, S. (2007). Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells without Myc from mouse and human fibroblasts. Nat Biotechnol.

Takahashi, K., Tanabe, K., Ohnuki, M., Narita, M., Ichisaka, T., Tomoda, K., and Yamanaka, S. (2007). Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors. Cell 131, 861-872.

Yu, J., Vodyanik, M. A., Smuga-Otto, K., Antosiewicz-Bourget, J., Frane, J. L., Tian, S., Nie, J., Jonsdottir, G. A., Ruotti, V., Stewart, R., et al. (2007). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells. Science. Doi:10.1126/science.1151526

November 13, 2007

The ISSCR pages in Cell Stem Cell:
Witty, N. (2007). ISSCR Executive Note: Strategic Planning; Progress and Potential. Cell Stem Cell 1, 383-386.

Marshak, D. R. (2007). ISSCR: Committee Forum. Evolution of the ISSCR Industry Committee. Cell Stem Cell 1, 387-388.

The next generation HapMap:
Frazer, K. A., Ballinger, D. G., Cox, D. R., Hinds, D. A., Stuve, L. L., Gibbs, R. A., Belmont, J. W., Boudreau, A., Hardenbol, P., Leal, S. M., et al. (2007). A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. Nature 449, 851-861.
Accompanied by related commentaries

Review:
Parolini, O., Alviano, F., Bagnara, G. P., Bilic, G., Buhring, H. J., Evangelista, M., Hennerbichler, S., Liu, B., Magatti, M., Mao, N., et al. (2007). CONCISE REVIEW: Isolation and Characterization of Cells from Human Term Placenta: Outcome of the First International Workshop on Placenta Derived Stem Cells. Stem Cells. doi:10.1634/stemcells.2007-0594

Philip H. Jones, Benjamin D. Simons, and Fiona M. Watt. (2007). Sic Transit Gloria: Farewell to the Epidermal Transit Amplifying Cell? Cell Stem Cell 1, 371-381.

Reviews of recent literature:
Berg, J. S. and Goodell, M. A. (2007). An Argument against a Role for Oct4 in Somatic Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 1, 359-360.
Commentary on Lengner et al., 2007 (see below)

Kokovay, E., and Temple, S. (2007). Taking neural crest stem cells to new heights. Cell 131, 234-236.
Commentary on Pardal et al., 2007 (see below)

Stocum, D. L. (2007). Developmental biology. Acceptable nAGging. Science 318, 754-755.
Commentary on Kumar et al., 2007 (see below)

Articles:
Barker, N., van Es, J. H., Kuipers, J., Kujala, P., van den Born, M., Cozijnsen, M., Haegebarth, A., Korving, J., Begthel, H., Peters, P. J., and Clevers, H. (2007). Identification of stem cells in small intestine and colon by marker gene Lgr5. Nature 449, 1003-1007.

Galinha, C., Hofhuis, H., Luijten, M., Willemsen, V., Blilou, I., Heidstra, R., and Scheres, B. (2007). PLETHORA proteins as dose-dependent master regulators of Arabidopsis root development. Nature 449, 1053-1057.

Kumar, A., Godwin, J. W., Gates, P. B., Garza-Garcia, A. A., and Brockes, J. P. (2007). Molecular basis for the nerve dependence of limb regeneration in an adult vertebrate. Science 318, 772-777.

Lengner, C.J., Camargo, F. D., Hochedlinger, K., G. G., Zaidi, S., Gokhale, S., Scholer, H. R., Tomilin, A., and Jaenisch, R. (2007). Oct4 Expression Is Not Required for Mouse Somatic Stem Cell Self-Renewal. Cell Stem Cell 1, 403-415.

Liedtke, S., Enczmann, J., Waclawczyk, S., Wernet, P., and Kögler, G. (2007). Oct4 and Its Pseudogenes Confuse Stem Cell Research. Cell Stem Cell 1, 364-366.

Lombardo, A., Genovese, P., Beausejour, C. M., Colleoni, S., Lee, Y. L., Kim, K. A., Ando, D., Urnov, F. D., Galli, C., Gregory, P. D., et al. (2007). Gene editing in human stem cells using zinc finger nucleases and integrase-defective lentiviral vector delivery. Nat Biotechnol 25, 1298-1306.

Pardal, R., Ortega-Saenz, P., Duran, R., and Lopez-Barneo, J. (2007). Glia-like stem cells sustain physiologic neurogenesis in the adult mammalian carotid body. Cell 131, 364-377.
 
Takenaka, K., Prasolava, T. K., Wang, J. C., Mortin-Toth, S. M., Khalouei, S., Gan, O. I., Dick, J. E., and Danska, J. S. (2007). Polymorphism in Sirpa modulates engraftment of human hematopoietic stem cells. Nature Immunology. doi:10.1038/ni1527.

Thyagarajan, B., Liu, Y., Shin, S., Lakshmipathy, U., Scheyhing, K., Xue, H., Ellerstrom, C., Strehl, R., Hyllner, J., Rao, M. S., and Chesnut, J. D. (2007). Creation of Engineered Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Using phiC31 Integrase. Stem Cells. doi:10.1634/stemcells.2007-0283.
 
Wolf, D., and Goff, S. P. (2007). TRIM28 mediates primer binding site-targeted silencing of murine leukemia virus in embryonic cells. Cell 131, 46-57.

Yin, H., and Lin, H. (2007). An epigenetic activation role of Piwi and a Piwi-associated piRNA in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 450, 304-309

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October 9, 2007

The ISSCR pages in Cell Stem Cell:
Orkin, S. H. and Pera, M. (2007). ISSCR: Meeting Report. Stem Cells Down Under—ISSCR 2007. Cell Stem Cell 1, 157-158.

Review:
Metcalf, D. (2007). Concise Review: Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Tissue Stem Cells: Current Concepts and Unanswered Questions. Stem Cells 25, 2390-2395

Telfer, E. E., and McLaughlin, M. (2007). Natural history of the mammalian oocyte. Reprod Biomed Online 15, 288-295.

Reviews of recent literature:
Xie, H., and Orkin, S. H. (2007). Immunology: changed destiny. Nature 449, 410-411.
Commentary on Cobaleda et al., 2007 (see below)

DiNardo, S., and Braun, R. E. (2007). Developmental biology. Home for the precious few. Science 317, 1696-1697.
Commentary on Yoshida et al., 2007 (see below)

Sharov, A. A., and Ko, M. S. H. (2007) Human ES Cell Profiling Broadens the Reach of Bivalent Domains. Cell Stem Cell 1, 237-238.
Commentary on genome-wide histone methylation screens reported by Pan et al., 2007 and Zhao et al., 2007 (Cell Stem Cell, September) and Mikkelsen et al., 2007 (Nature, August; August issue of The Pulse)

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 Articles:
Bi, Y., Ehirchiou, D., Kilts, T. M., Inkson, C. A., Embree, M. C., Sonoyama, W., Li, L., Leet, A. I., Seo, B. M., Zhang, L., et al. (2007). Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche. Nat Med 13, 1219-1227.

Blelloch, R., Venere, M., Yen, J. and Ramalho-Santos, M. (2007). Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Absence of Drug Selection. Cell Stem Cell 1, 245-247

Cobaleda, C., Jochum, W., and Busslinger, M. (2007). Conversion of mature B cells into T cells by dedifferentiation to uncommitted progenitors. Nature 449, 473-477.

Dalby, M. J., Gadegaard, N., Tare, R., Andar, A., Riehle, M. O., Herzyk, P., Wilkinson, C. D., and Oreffo, R. O. (2007). The control of human mesenchymal cell differentiation using nanoscale symmetry and disorder. Nat Mater. doi:10.1038/nmat2013

De Santa, F., Totaro, M. G., Prosperini, E., Notarbartolo, S., Testa, G., and Natoli, G. (2007). The Histone H3 Lysine-27 Demethylase Jmjd3 Links Inflammation to Inhibition of Polycomb-Mediated Gene Silencing. Cell 130, 1083-1094.

Duan, X., Chang, J. H., Ge, S., Faulkner, R. L., Kim, J. Y., Kitabatake, Y., Liu, X. B., Yang, C. H., Jordan, J. D., Ma, D. K., et al. (2007). Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1 Regulates Integration of Newly Generated Neurons in the Adult Brain. Cell 130, 1146-1158.

Feinberg, A. W., Feigel, A., Shevkoplyas, S. S., Sheehy, S., Whitesides, G. M., and Parker, K. K. (2007). Muscular thin films for building actuators and powering devices. Science 317, 1366-1370.

Hermann, P. C., Huber, S. L., Herrler, T., Aicher, A., Ellwart, J. W., Guba, M., Bruns, C. J. and Heeschen, C. (2007). Distinct Populations of Cancer Stem Cells Determine Tumor Growth and Metastatic Activity in Human Pancreatic Cancer. Cell Stem Cell 1, 313-323

Hsieh, P. C., Segers, V. F., Davis, M. E., MacGillivray, C., Gannon, J., Molkentin, J. D., Robbins, J., and Lee, R. T. (2007). Evidence from a genetic fate-mapping study that stem cells refresh adult mammalian cardiomyocytes after injury. Nat Med 13, 970-974.

Karnoub, A. E., Dash, A. B., Vo, A. P., Sullivan, A., Brooks, M. W., Bell, G. W., Richardson, A. L., Polyak, K., Tubo, R., and Weinberg, R. A. (2007). Mesenchymal stem cells within tumour stroma promote breast cancer metastasis. Nature 449, 557-563.

Meissner, A., Wernig, M., and Jaenisch, R. (2007). Direct reprogramming of genetically unmodified fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells. Nat Biotechnol 25, 1177-1181

Mizutani, K., Yoon, K., Dang, L., Tokunaga, A., and Gaiano, N. (2007). Differential Notch signalling distinguishes neural stem cells from intermediate progenitors. Nature 449, 351-355.

Seandel, M., James, D., Shmelkov, S. V., Falciatori, I., Kim, J., Chavala, S., Scherr, D. S., Zhang, F., Torres, R., Gale, N. W., et al. (2007). Generation of functional multipotent adult stem cells from GPR125+ germline progenitors. Nature 449, 346-350.

Yoshida, S., Sukeno, M., and Nabeshima, Y. (2007). A vasculature-associated niche for undifferentiated spermatogonia in the mouse testis. Science 317, 1722-1726.

Zheng, B., Cao, B., Crisan, M., Sun, B., Li, G., Logar, A., Yap, S., Pollett, J. B., Drowley, L., Cassino, T., et al. (2007). Prospective identification of myogenic endothelial cells in human skeletal muscle. Nat Biotechnol 25, 1025-1034.

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September 11, 2007

Article series:
Next Generation Therapeutics: Chemical Biology and Stem Cells
Schaffer, D. (2007). Exploring and engineering stem cells and their niches. Curr Opin Chem Biol 11, 355-356.

An overview (Schaffer, 2007) followed by 8 reviews
Commentary:
Holland, E. M. (2007). The risks and advantages of framing science. Science 317, 1168-1170; author reply 1168-1170.
A discussion on science communication

Review:
Cox, J., and Mann, M. (2007). Is proteomics the new genomics? Cell 130, 395-398.

Finkel, T., Serrano, M., and Blasco, M. A. (2007). The common biology of cancer and ageing. Nature 448, 767-774.

Yamada, K. M., and Cukierman, E. (2007). Modeling Tissue Morphogenesis and Cancer in 3D. Cell 130, 601-610.

Reviews of recent literature:
Affolter, M., and Barde, Y. (2007). Self-renewal in the fly kidney. Dev Cell 13, 321-322.
Commentary on Singh et al., 2007 (see below)

Jang, Y. Y., and Sharkis, S. J. (2007). Fetal to adult stem cell transition: knocking Sox17 off. Cell 130, 403-404.
Commentary on Kim et al., 2007 (see August issue of The Pulse)

Articles:
This month I have included papers describing new intricacies in the roles of microRNAs and a paper implicating the skeleton as an endocrine regulator of sugar homeostasis

Brack, A. S., Conboy, M. J., Roy, S., Lee, M., Kuo, C. J., Keller, C., and Rando, T. A. (2007). Increased Wnt signaling during aging alters muscle stem cell fate and increases fibrosis. Science 317, 807-810.

Choi, W. Y., Giraldez, A. J., and Schier, A. F. (2007). Target Protectors Reveal Dampening and Balancing of Nodal Agonist and Antagonist by miR-430. Science. Doi:10.1126/science.1147535.

Kawahara, M., Wu, Q., Takahashi, N., Morita, S., Yamada, K., Ito, M., Ferguson-Smith, A. C., and Kono, T. (2007). High-frequency generation of viable mice from engineered bi-maternal embryos. Nat Biotechnol. Doi:10.1038/nbt1331.

Kiel, M. J., He, S., Ashkenazi, R., Gentry, S. N., Teta, M., Kushner, J. A., Jackson, T. L., and Morrison, S. J. (2007). Haematopoietic stem cells do not asymmetrically segregate chromosomes or retain BrdU. Nature. Doi:10.1038/nature06115.

Kim, J., Inoue, K., Ishii, J., Vanti, W. B., Voronov, S. V., Murchison, E., Hannon, G., and Abeliovich, A. (2007). A MicroRNA Feedback Circuit in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons. Science 317, 1220-1224.

Laflamme, M. A., Chen, K. Y., Naumova, A. V., Muskheli, V., Fugate, J. A., Dupras, S. K., Reinecke, H., Xu, C., Hassanipour, M., Police, S., et al. (2007). Cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells in pro-survival factors enhance function of infarcted rat hearts. Nat Biotechnol. Doi:10.1038/nbt1327.

Lee, N. K., Sowa, H., Hinoi, E., Ferron, M., Ahn, J. D., Confavreux, C., Dacquin, R., Mee, P. J., McKee, M. D., Jung, D. Y., et al. (2007). Endocrine regulation of energy metabolism by the skeleton. Cell 130, 456-469.

Liu, H., Fergusson, M. M., Castilho, R. M., Liu, J., Cao, L., Chen, J., Malide, D., Rovira, II, Schimel, D., Kuo, C. J., et al. (2007). Augmented Wnt signaling in a mammalian model of accelerated aging. Science 317, 803-806.

Martello, G., Zacchigna, L., Inui, M., Montagner, M., Adorno, M., Mamidi, A., Morsut, L., Soligo, S., Tran, U., Dupont, S., et al. (2007). MicroRNA control of Nodal signalling. Nature. Doi:10.1038/nature06100.

Okamoto, S-I., Kang, Y-J., Brechtel, C. W., Siviglia, E., Russo, R., Clemente, A., Harrop, A., McKercher, S., Kaul, M., and Lipton, S. A. (2007). HIV/gp120 decreases adult neural progenitor cell proliferation via checkpoint kinase-mediated cell-cycle withdrawal and G1 arrest. Cell Stem Cell 1, 230-236.

Singh, S. R., Liu, W., and Hou, S.X. (2007). The Adult Drosophila Malpighian Tubules Are Maintained by Multipotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 1, 191-203.

August 14, 2007

Cell Stem Cell:
Look out for the second issue of Cell Stem Cell on Aug. 16, 2007. We encourage you to read the dedicated pages with ISSCR-contributed news and discussions. ISSCR members will receive a complimentary print copy of the August and September issues and are offered a subscription discount of up to 65 percent off the full rate ongoing.

Review:
Pouton, C. W., and Haynes, J. M. (2007). Embryonic stem cells as a source of models for drug discovery. Nat Rev Drug Discov 6, 605-616.

Reviews of recent literature:
Rossant, J. (2007). Stem cells: the magic brew. Nature 448, 260-262.
Commentary on Mahereli et al., 2007; Okita et al., 2007; Wernig et al., 2007 (See June issue of The Pulse)

Articles:
Bendall, S. C., Stewart, M. H., Menendez, P., George, D., Vijayaragavan, K., Werbowetski-Ogilvie, T., Ramos-Mejia, V., Rouleau, A., Yang, J., Bosse, M., et al. (2007). IGF and FGF cooperatively establish the regulatory stem cell niche of pluripotent human cells in vitro. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature06027

Guenther, M. G., Levine, S. S., Boyer, L. A., Jaenisch, R., and Young, R. A. (2007). A chromatin landmark and transcription initiation at most promoters in human cells. Cell 130, 77-88.

Kelly, P. N., Dakic, A., Adams, J. M., Nutt, S. L., and Strasser, A. (2007). Tumor growth need not be driven by rare cancer stem cells. Science 317, 337.

Kim, I., Saunders, T. L., and Morrison, S. J. (2007). Sox17 Dependence Distinguishes the Transcriptional Regulation of Fetal from Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Cell. 130, 470-483

Kim, K., Ng, K., Rugg-Gunn, P. J., Shieh, J-H., Kirak, O., Jaenisch, R., Wakayama, T., Moore, M. A., Pedersen, R. A., Daley, G. Q. (2007) . Recombination Signatures Distinguish Embryonic Stem Cells Derived by Parthenogenesis and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. Cell Stem Cell doi:10.1016/j.stem.2007.07.001

Merkle, F. T., Mirzadeh, Z., and Alvarez-Buylla, A. (2007). Mosaic organization of neural stem cells in the adult brain. Science 317, 381-384.

Mikkelsen, T. S., Ku, M., Jaffe, D. B., Issac, B., Lieberman, E., Giannoukos, G., Alvarez, P., Brockman, W., Kim, T. K., Koche, R. P., et al. (2007). Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells. Nature 448, 553-560.

Ortega-Martinez, O., Pernas, M., Carol, R. J., and Dolan, L. (2007). Ethylene modulates stem cell division in the Arabidopsis thaliana root. Science 317, 507-510.

Revazova, E. S., Turovets, N. A., Kochetkova, O. D., Kindarova, L. B., Kuzmichev, L. N., Janus, J. D., and Pryzhkova, M. V. (2007). Patient-Specific Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Parthenogenetic Blastocysts. Cloning Stem Cells. doi:10.1089/clo.2007.0033

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July 10, 2007

Cell Stem Cell:
The first issue of Cell Stem Cell can be found online at www.cellstemcell.com and all articles are currently freely available. Note the dedicated pages for ISSCR-contributed news and discussions. ISSCR members are offered a subscription discount of up to 65% off the full rate.

Perspectives:
Murray, F. (2007). The stem-cell market -- patents and the pursuit of scientific progress. N Engl J Med 356, 2341-2343.

Two sides of a coin:
Lansdorp, P. M. (2007). Immortal strands? Give me a break. Cell 129, 1244-1247.

Rando, T. A. (2007). The immortal strand hypothesis: segregation and reconstruction. Cell 129, 1239-1243.

Reviews of recent literature:
Perry, J. M., and Li, L. (2007). Disrupting the stem cell niche: good seeds in bad soil. Cell 129, 1045-1047.
Commentary on Walkley et al., 2007a and Walkley et al., 2007b (listed below)

Articles:
Adewumi, O., Aflatoonian, B., Ahrlund-Richter, L., Amit, M., Andrews, P. W., Beighton, G., Bello, P. A., Benvenisty, N., Berry, L. S., Bevan, S., et al. (2007). Characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines by the International Stem Cell Initiative. Nat Biotechnol. doi:10.1038/nbt1318

Brons, I. G., Smithers, L. E., Trotter, M. W., Rugg-Gunn, P., Sun, B., Chuva de Sousa Lopes, S. M., Howlett, S. K., Clarkson, A., Ahrlund-Richter, L., Pedersen, R. A., and Vallier, L. (2007). Derivation of pluripotent epiblast stem cells from mammalian embryos. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature05950

Kim, K., Lerou, P., Yabuuchi, A., Lengerke, C., Ng, K., West, J., Kirby, A., Daly, M. J., and Daley, G. Q. (2007). Histocompatible embryonic stem cells by parthenogenesis. Science 315, 482-486.

Kitadate, Y., Shigenobu, S., Arita, K., and Kobayashi, S. (2007). Boss/Sev Signaling from Germline to Soma Restricts Germline-Stem-Cell-Niche Formation in the Anterior Region of Drosophila Male Gonads. Dev Cell 13, 151-159.

North, T. E., Goessling, W., Walkley, C. R., Lengerke, C., Kopani, K. R., Lord, A. M., Weber, G. J., Bowman, T. V., Jang, I. H., Grosser, T., et al. (2007). Prostaglandin E2 regulates vertebrate haematopoietic stem cell homeostasis. Nature 447, 1007-1011.

Takashima, Y., Era, T., Nakao, K., Kondo, S., Kasuga, M., Smith, A. G., and Nishikawa, S. I. (2007). Neuroepithelial Cells Supply an Initial Transient Wave of MSC Differentiation. Cell 129, 1377-1388.

Tesar, P. J., Chenoweth, J. G., Brook, F. A., Davies, T. J., Evans, E. P., Mack, D. L., Gardner, R. L., and McKay, R. D. (2007). New cell lines from mouse epiblast share defining features with human embryonic stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature05972

Walkley, C. R., Olsen, G. H., Dworkin, S., Fabb, S. A., Swann, J., McArthur, G. A., Westmoreland, S. V., Chambon, P., Scadden, D. T., and Purton, L. E. (2007a). A Microenvironment-Induced Myeloproliferative Syndrome Caused by Retinoic Acid Receptor gamma Deficiency. Cell 129, 1097-1110.

Walkley, C. R., Shea, J. M., Sims, N. A., Purton, L. E., and Orkin, S. H. (2007b). Rb Regulates Interactions between Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Bone Marrow Microenvironment. Cell 129, 1081-1095.

June 12, 2007

New journal: Cell Stem Cell
The first issue of Cell Stem Cell is now online at www.cellstemcell.com and all articles are freely available. Explore this month’s exciting content! Note the dedicated pages for ISSCR-contributed news and discussions. ISSCR members are offered a subscription discount of up to 65 percent off the full rate.

Reviews of recent literature:
Colman, A., and Burley, J. (2007). Stem cells: recycling the abnormal. Nature 447, 649-650.
Commentary on Egli et al., 2007 (see below)

Cossu, G., and Tajbakhsh, S. (2007). Oriented Cell Divisions and Muscle Satellite Cell Heterogeneity. Cell 129, 859-861.
Commentary on Kuang et al., 2007 (see below)

Articles:
Egli, D., Rosains, J., Birkhoff, G., and Eggan, K. (2007). Developmental reprogramming after chromosome transfer into mitotic mouse zygotes. Nature 447, 679-685.

Kuang, S., Kuroda, K., Le Grand, F., and Rudnicki, M. A. (2007). Asymmetric self-renewal and commitment of satellite stem cells in muscle. Cell 129, 999-1010.

Lu, S. J., Feng, Q., Caballero, S., Chen, Y., Moore, M. A., Grant, M. B., and Lanza, R. (2007). Generation of functional hemangioblasts from human embryonic stem cells. Nat Methods 4, 501-509.

Maherali, N., Sridharan, R., Xie, W., Utikal, J., Eminli, S., Arnold, K., Stadtfeld, M., Yachechko, R., Tchieu, J., Jaenisch, R., et al. (2007). Directly reprogrammed fibroblasts show global epigenetic remodeling and widespread tissue contribution. Cell Stem Cell 1, 55-70

Nijnik, A., Woodbine, L., Marchetti, C., Dawson, S., Lambe, T., Liu, C., Rodrigues, N. P., Crockford, T. L., Cabuy, E., Vindigni, A., et al. (2007). DNA repair is limiting for haematopoietic stem cells during ageing. Nature 447, 686-690.

Okita, K., Ichisaka, T., and Yamanaka, S. (2007). Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature05934

Rossi, D. J., Bryder, D., Seita, J., Nussenzweig, A., Hoeijmakers, J., and Weissman, I. L. (2007). Deficiencies in DNA damage repair limit the function of haematopoietic stem cells with age. Nature 447, 725-729.

Watanabe, K., Ueno, M., Kamiya, D., Nishiyama, A., Matsumura, M., Wataya, T., Takahashi, J. B., Nishikawa, S., Nishikawa, S. I., Muguruma, K., and Sasai, Y. (2007). A ROCK inhibitor permits survival of dissociated human embryonic stem cells. Nat Biotechnol. 25, 681-686

Wernig, M., Meissner, A., Foreman, R., Brambrink, T., Ku, M., Hochedlinger, K., Bernstein, B. E., and Jaenisch, R. (2007). In vitro reprogramming of fibroblasts into a pluripotent ES-cell-like state. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature05944

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May 8, 2007

Collections:
Science Special Issue: Germ Cells (2007). Science 316, 387-410
A collection of reviews and news articles that address various aspects of germ cell development and technologies. See also related articles online in Science’s Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE).

Perspectives:
Bergman, K., and Graff, G. D. (2007). The global stem cell patent landscape: implications for efficient technology transfer and commercial development. Nat Biotechnol 25, 419-424.

Skene, L. (2007). Undertaking research in other countries: national ethico-legal barometers and international ethical consensus statements. PLoS Med 4, e10.

Taylor, P. L. (2007). Research sharing, ethics and public benefit. Nat Biotechnol 25, 398-401.

Reviews:
Cellot, S., and Sauvageau, G. (2007). Zfx: at the crossroads of survival and self-renewal. Cell 129, 239-241.

Commentary on Galan-Caridad et al., 2007 (below)
Scheres, B. (2007). Stem-cell niches: nursery rhymes across kingdoms. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 8, 345-354.

Articles:
Barberi, T., Bradbury, M., Dincer, Z., Panagiotakos, G., Socci, N. D., and Studer, L. (2007). Derivation of engraftable skeletal myoblasts from human embryonic stem cells. Nat Med 13, 642-648.

Di Giorgio, F. P., Carrasco, M. A., Siao, M. C., Maniatis, T., and Eggan, K. (2007). Non-cell autonomous effect of glia on motor neurons in an embryonic stem cell-based ALS model. Nat Neurosci 10, 608-614.

Galan-Caridad, J. M., Harel, S., Arenzana, T. L., Hou, Z. E., Doetsch, F. K., Mirny, L. A., and Reizis, B. (2007). Zfx controls the self-renewal of embryonic and hematopoietic stem cells. Cell 129, 345-357.

Leung, C. T., Coulombe, P. A., and Reed, R. R. (2007). Contribution of olfactory neural stem cells to tissue maintenance and regeneration. Nat Neurosci.

Nagai, M., Re, D. B., Nagata, T., Chalazonitis, A., Jessell, T. M., Wichterle, H., and Przedborski, S. (2007). Astrocytes expressing ALS-linked mutated SOD1 release factors selectively toxic to motor neurons. Nat Neurosci 10, 615-622.

Tadokoro, Y., Ema, H., Okano, M., Li, E., and Nakauchi, H. (2007). De novo DNA methyltransferase is essential for self-renewal, but not for differentiation, in hematopoietic stem cells. J Exp Med 204, 715-722.

April 10, 2007

News:
Cyranoski, D. (2007). Chinese network to start trials of spinal surgery. Nature 446, 476-477.

von Bubnoff, A. (2007). Superpostdocs reach for the stars. Cell 128, 1023-1026.

Perspectives:
Check, E. (2007). Stem cells: the hard copy. Nature 446, 485-486.

A picture is worth 1,000 words: Ilagan, M. X., and Kopan, R. (2007). SnapShot: Notch Signaling Pathway. Cell 128, 1246.

Review of recent literature:
Simon, A., and Frisen, J. (2007). From stem cell to progenitor and back again. Cell 128, 825-826.
Commentary on Nakagawa et al., 2007 (below)

Research articles:
George, S. H., Gertsenstein, M., Vintersten, K., Korets-Smith, E., Murphy, J., Stevens, M. E., Haigh, J. J., and Nagy, A. (2007). Developmental and adult phenotyping directly from mutant embryonic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104, 4455-4460.

Hosen, N., Yamane, T., Muijtjens, M., Pham, K., Clarke, M. F., and Weissman, I. L. (2007). Bmi-1-green fluorescent protein (GFP)-knock-in mice reveal the dynamic regulation of Bmi-1 expression in normal and leukemic hematopoietic cells. Stem Cells. doi:10.1634/stemcells.2006-0229

Jin, Z., and Xie, T. (2007). Dcr-1 maintains Drosophila ovarian stem cells. Curr Biol 17, 539-544.

Lee, J. P., Jeyakumar, M., Gonzalez, R., Takahashi, H., Lee, P. J., Baek, R. C., Clark, D., Rose, H., Fu, G., Clarke, J., et al. (2007). Stem cells act through multiple mechanisms to benefit mice with neurodegenerative metabolic disease. Nat Med. 13, 439-447

Nakagawa, T., Nabeshima, Y., and Yoshida, S. (2007). Functional identification of the actual and potential stem cell compartments in mouse spermatogenesis. Dev Cell 12, 195-206.

Park, J. K., Liu, X., Strauss, T. J., McKearin, D. M., and Liu, Q. (2007). The miRNA pathway intrinsically controls self-renewal of Drosophila germline stem cells. Curr Biol 17, 533-538.

Rebollo, E., Sampaio, P., Januschke, J., Llamazares, S., Varmark, H., and Gonzalez, C. (2007). Functionally unequal centrosomes drive spindle orientation in asymmetrically dividing Drosophila neural stem cells. Dev Cell 12, 467-474.

Samokhvalov, I. M., Samokhvalova, N. I., and Nishikawa, S. I. (2007). Cell tracing shows the contribution of the yolk sac to adult haematopoiesis. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature05725

Zangrossi, S., Marabese, M., Broggini, M., Giordano, R., D'Erasmo, M., Montelatici, E., Intini, D., Neri, A., Pesce, M., Rebulla, P., and Lazzari, L. (2007). Oct-4 expression in adult human differentiated cells challenges its role as a pure stem cell marker. Stem Cells. doi:10.1634/stemcells.2006-0611

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March 13, 2007

Review Collections:
Special Review Issue on Epigenetics and Chromatin Organization (2007). Cell 128, 627-800

Nature Insight: Skin Biology (2007). Nature 445, 833-880.

Perspectives on SCNT:
Hawes., S. (2007) Dolly- 10 years later.

Check, E. (2007). Cloning special: Dolly: a hard act to follow. Nature 445, 802.

Wadman, M. (2007). Cloning special: Dolly: a decade on. Nature 445, 800-801.

Yang, X., Smith, S. L., Tian, X. C., Lewin, H. A., Renard, J. P., and Wakayama, T. (2007). Nuclear reprogramming of cloned embryos and its implications for therapeutic cloning. Nat Genet 39, 295-302.

Reviews of recent research:
Morgan, J., and Muntoni, F. (2007). Mural cells paint a new picture of muscle stem cells. Nat Cell Biol 9, 249-251.
Commentary on Dellavalle et al., 2007 (see below)

Research articles:
Dellavalle, A., Sampaolesi, M., Tonlorenzi, R., Tagliafico, E., Sacchetti, B., Perani, L., Innocenzi, A., Galvez, B. G., Messina, G., Morosetti, R., et al. (2007). Pericytes of human skeletal muscle are myogenic precursors distinct from satellite cells. Nat Cell Biol 9, 255-267.

Eckardt, S., Leu, N. A., Bradley, H. L., Kato, H., Bunting, K. D., and McLaughlin, K. J. (2007). Hematopoietic reconstitution with androgenetic and gynogenetic stem cells. Genes Dev 21, 409-419.

Kaji, K., Nichols, J., and Hendrich, B. (2007). Mbd3, a component of the NuRD co-repressor complex, is required for development of pluripotent cells. Development 134, 1123-1132.

Nakagawa, T., Nabeshima, Y., and Yoshida, S. (2007). Functional identification of the actual and potential stem cell compartments in mouse spermatogenesis. Dev Cell 12, 195-206.

Ohlstein, B., and Spradling, A. (2007). Multipotent Drosophila intestinal stem cells specify daughter cell fates by differential notch signaling. Science 315, 988-992.

Rebollo, E., Sampaio, P., Januschke, J., Llamazares, S., Varmark, H., and Gonzalez, C. (2007). Functionally Unequal Centrosomes Drive Spindle Orientation in Asymmetrically Dividing Drosophila Neural Stem Cells. Dev Cell 12, 467-474.

Stanger, B. Z., Tanaka, A. J., and Melton, D. A. (2007). Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver. Nature 445, 886-891.

Vallier, L., Alexander, M., and Pedersen, R. (2007). Conditional gene expression in human embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells. doi:10.1634/stemcells.2006-0825

Wang, Z. Z., Au, P., Chen, T., Shao, Y., Daheron, L. M., Bai, H., Arzigian, M., Fukumura, D., Jain, R. K., and Scadden, D. T. (2007). Endothelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells form durable blood vessels in vivo. Nat Biotechnol 25, 317-318.

Yoshida, T., Hakuba, N., Morizane, I., Fujita, K., Cao, F., Zhu, P., Uchida, N., Kameda, K., Sakanaka, M., Gyo, K., and Hata, R. (2007). Hematopoietic stem cells prevent cell death after transient cochlear ischemia through paracrine effects. Neuroscience. doi:10.1216/j.neuroscience.2006.12.067

February 13, 2007

Commentary:
Daley, G. Q., Richter, L. A., Auerbach, J. M., Benvenisty, N., Charo, R. A., Chen, G., Deng, H. K., Goldstein, L. S., Hudson, K. L., Hyun, I., et al. (2007). Ethics. The ISSCR guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research. Science 315, 603-604.

Sinclair, A. H., and Schofield, P. R. (2007). Human embryonic stem cell research: an Australian perspective. Cell 128, 221-223.

Research tools:
Collins, F. S., and Rossant, J. (2007). A mouse for all reasons. Cell 128, 9-13.

Poueymirou, W. T., Auerbach, W., Frendewey, D., Hickey, J. F., Escaravage, J. M., Esau, L., Dore, A. T., Stevens, S., Adams, N. C., Dominguez, M. G., et al. (2007). F0 generation mice fully derived from gene-targeted embryonic stem cells allowing immediate phenotypic analyses. Nat Biotechnol 25, 91-99.

Review:
Blanpain, C., Horsley, V., and Fuchs, E. (2007). Epithelial Stem Cells: Turning over New Leaves. Cell 128, 445-458.

Reviews of recent literature:
Arden, K. C. (2007). FoxOs in tumor suppression and stem cell maintenance. Cell 128, 235-237.
Commentary on Paik et al., 2007 and Tothova et al., 2007 (see below)

de Haan, G. (2007). Latexin is a newly discovered regulator of hematopoietic stem cells. Nat Genet 39, 141-142.
Commentary on Liang et al., 2007 (see below)

Spradling, A. C., and Zheng, Y. (2007). Developmental biology. The mother of all stem cells? Science 315, 469-470.
Commentary on Yamashita et al., 2007 (see below)

Articles:
Adams, G. B., Martin, R. P., Alley, I. R., Chabner, K. T., Cohen, K. S., Calvi, L. M., Kronenberg, H. M., and Scadden, D. T. (2007). Therapeutic targeting of a stem cell niche. Nat Biotechnol 25, 238-243.

Baker, D. E., Harrison, N. J., Maltby, E., Smith, K., Moore, H. D., Shaw, P. J., Heath, P. R., Holden, H., and Andrews, P. W. (2007). Adaptation to culture of human embryonic stem cells and oncogenesis in vivo. Nat Biotechnol 25, 207-215.

Liang, Y., Jansen, M., Aronow, B., Geiger, H., and Van Zant, G. (2007). The quantitative trait gene latexin influences the size of the hematopoietic stem cell population in mice. Nat Genet 39, 178-188.

Nelson, J. L., Gillespie, K. M., Lambert, N. C., Stevens, A. M., Loubiere, L. S., Rutledge, J. C., Leisenring, W. M., Erickson, T. D., Yan, Z., Mullarkey, M. E., et al. (2007). Maternal microchimerism in peripheral blood in type 1 diabetes and pancreatic islet beta cell microchimerism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104, 1637-1642.

Paik, J. H., Kollipara, R., Chu, G., Ji, H., Xiao, Y., Ding, Z., Miao, L., Tothova, Z., Horner, J. W., Carrasco, D. R., et al. (2007). FoxOs are lineage-restricted redundant tumor suppressors and regulate endothelial cell homeostasis. Cell 128, 309-323.

Torres-Padilla, M. E., Parfitt, D. E., Kouzarides, T., and Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2007). Histone arginine methylation regulates pluripotency in the early mouse embryo. Nature 445, 214-218.

Tothova, Z., Kollipara, R., Huntly, B. J., Lee, B. H., Castrillon, D. H., Cullen, D. E., McDowell, E. P., Lazo-Kallanian, S., Williams, I. R., Sears, C., et al. (2007). FoxOs are critical mediators of hematopoietic stem cell resistance to physiologic oxidative stress. Cell 128, 325-339.

Yamashita, Y. M., Mahowald, A. P., Perlin, J. R., and Fuller, M. T. (2007). Asymmetric inheritance of mother versus daughter centrosome in stem cell division. Science 315, 518-521.

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January 9, 2007

Participatory approaches to peer review:

PLoS ONE publishes reports of primary research from all disciplines within science and medicine and offers a second level of review by allowing the reader to add annotations to the text and initiate discussion for each article. Practice annotation and initiating discussion using the PLoS Sandbox article, then search for stem cell-related articles and provide your comments.

Nature released its results on a trial of open peer review initiated in June 2006. Read more on its findings and commentary on this process.

Reviews of recent literature:

Burns, C. E., and Zon, L. I. (2006). Homing sweet homing: odyssey of hematopoietic stem cells. Immunity 25, 859-862.
Commentary on Murayama et al., 2006 (see below)

Kiel, M. J., and Morrison, S. J. (2006). Maintaining Hematopoietic Stem Cells in the Vascular Niche. Immunity 25, 862-864.
Commentary on Sugiyama et al., 2006 (see below)

Trounson., A. (2007) A fluid means of stem cell generation. doi:10.1038/nbt0107-62
Commentary on De Coppi et al., 2007 (see below)

Articles:

De Coppi, P., Bartsch G., Siddiqui, M.M., Xu, T., Santos, C.C., Perin, L., Mostoslavsky, G., Serre, A.C., Snyder, E.Y., Yoo, J.J., Furth, et al. (2007). Isolation of amniotic stem cell lines with potential for therapy. Nat Biotechnol. doi: 10.1038/nbt1274

Hayani, A., Lampeter, E., Viswanatha, D., Morgan, D., and Salvi, S. N. (2007). First report of autologous cord blood transplantation in the treatment of a child with leukemia. Pediatrics 119, e296-300.

Kim, K., Lerou, P., Yabuuchi, A., Lengerke, C., Ng, K., West, J., Kirby, A., Daly, M. J., and Daley, G. Q. (2006). Histocompatible Embryonic Stem Cells by Parthenogenesis. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.1133542

Kuo, C. T., Mirzadeh, Z., Soriano-Navarro, M., Rasin, M., Wang, D., Shen, J., Sestan, N., Garcia-Verdugo, J., Alvarez-Buylla, A., Jan, L. Y., and Jan, Y. N. (2006). Postnatal deletion of Numb/Numblike reveals repair and remodeling capacity in the subventricular neurogenic niche. Cell 127, 1253-1264.

Murayama, E., Kissa, K., Zapata, A., Mordelet, E., Briolat, V., Lin, H. F., Handin, R. I., and Herbomel, P. (2006). Tracing Hematopoietic Precursor Migration to Successive Hematopoietic Organs during Zebrafish Development. Immunity 25, 963-975.

O'Brien C, A., Pollett, A., Gallinger, S., and Dick, J. E. (2006). A human colon cancer cell capable of initiating tumour growth in immunodeficient mice. Nature 445, 106-110

Poueymirou, W. T., Auerbach, W., Frendewey, D., Hickey, J. F., Escaravage, J. M., Esau, L., Dore, A. T., Stevens, S., Adams, N. C., Dominguez, M. G., et al. (2006). F0 generation mice fully derived from gene-targeted embryonic stem cells allowing immediate phenotypic analyses. Nat Biotechnol. doi:10.1038/nbt1263

Ricci-Vitiani, L., Lombardi, D. G., Pilozzi, E., Biffoni, M., Todaro, M., Peschle, C., and De Maria, R. (2006). Identification and expansion of human colon-cancer-initiating cells. Nature 445,111-115

Sugiyama, T., Kohara, H., Noda, M., and Nagasawa, T. (2006). Maintenance of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Pool by CXCL12-CXCR4 Chemokine Signaling in Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Niches. Immunity 25, 977-988.

Szutorisz, H., Georgiou, A., Tora, L., and Dillon, N. (2006). The proteasome restricts permissive transcription at tissue-specific gene Loci in embryonic stem cells. Cell 127, 1375-1388.

Zettler, P., Wolf, L. E., and Lo, B. (2007). Establishing Procedures for Institutional Oversight of Stem Cell Research. Acad Med 82, 6-10.

Updated: December 9, 2008