funded by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program(2019YFA0110001 and 2022YFC2702200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82288102,82125013,82201838,and 82101677);the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology(YESS20200398)。
Human fetuses exhibit notable sex differences in growth rate and response to the intrauterine environment,yet their origins and underlying mechanisms remain uncertain.Here,we conduct a detailed investigation of sex di...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2021YFA1102900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31721003,31820103009,82022027,31970814,32270909 and 32200665);supported by the National Key R&D Project of China(2020YFA0113200,2021YFC2700300 and 2018YFC1003102);the 2115 Talent Development Program of China Agricultural University(to S.G.);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2020104);the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(19JC1415300 and 21JC1405500).
Somatic cell nuclear transfer(SCNT) can reprogram differentiated somatic cells into totipotency.Although pre-implantation development of SCNT embryos has greatly improved,most SCNT blastocysts are still arrested at th...
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It is controversial whether pig pluripotent stem cells can be derived and stably maintained in a culture dish.In a recent paper published in Cell Research,Zhi et al.perform a comprehensive transcriptome landscape anal...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFA0100202,2016YFA0100200,2020YFA0509500,2019YFA0110700,2019YFA0110702,2020YFA0113200,2018YFC1003102,2017YFC0908402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970825,31772601,31601941,31571497,U19A2036,31772576);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(6192005);Plan 111(B12008),the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(2020104,2021081);Research Programs from the State Key Laboratories for Agro-biotechnology;China Agricultural University(2020SKLAB1-3,2021SKLAB6-6);the Science and Technology Program of Sichuan(2021YFYZ0009),and Yunling Scholars Program of Yunnan Province.
Pig epiblast-derived pluripotent stem cells are considered to have great potential and broad prospects for human therapeutic model developme nt and livestock breeding.Despite on going attempts since the 1990s,no stabl...
funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01GM129157, R01HD095938, R01HD097268, and R01HL146664);by contracts from New York State Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM#C35583GG and C35584GG)。
Pluripotency is recognized as a spectrum of cellular states spanning the na?ve pluripotency established in the preimplantation blastocyst and its transition into primed pluripotency in the postimplantation epiblast ce...
The study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFC1004500,2017YFC1001401,2019YFA0508900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31930033,31590832,31988101,31725018).
The pluripotency of mammalian early and late epiblast could be recapitulated by naïve embryonic stem cells(ESCs)and primed epiblast stem cells(EpiSCs),respectively.However,these two states of pluripotency may not be s...
This work was supported by The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFA0100202), National Nat- ural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31571497 and31601941 ), Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (6152004), The National Thousand Talents Program of China and Research Programs from the State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University (grant numbers 2015SKLAB1-4, 2017SKLAB1-2).
It is not fully clear why there is a higher contribution of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) to the chimera produced by injection of PSCs into 4-cell or 8-cell stage embryos compared with blastocyst injection. Here, we...
Thisworkwas supported in part by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA01010201);the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China(2014CB964804,2015CB964500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91219303,31430058).
The ectoderm has the capability to generate epidermis and neuroectoderm and plays imperative roles during the early embryonic development.Our recent study uncovered a region with ectodermal progenitor potential in mou...
supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CBA01300 to Q.Z.and 2014CB964800 to W.L.);the National Science Foundation of China(91319308 to Q.Z.).
Haploid pluripotent stem cells,such as haploid embryonic stem cells(haESCs),facilitate the genetic study of recessive traits.In vitro,fish haESCs maintain haploidy in both undifferentiated and differentiated states,bu...