USC researcher reveals how to better master stem cells’ fate
By Cristy Lytal
Qi-Long Ying and a team of researchers have discovered new ways to encourage human embryonic stem cells like these to self-renew.
(Photo/Courtesy Qi-Long Ying)
USC scientist Qi-Long Ying, PhD, MSc, and a team of researchers have long been searching for biotech’s version of the fountain of youth — ways to encourage embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs) to endlessly self-renew, or divide to produce more stem cells.
In a pair of studies published in Nature Communications in September and a study in The EMBO Journal in August, Ying and his team revealed some of the ways that ESCs and EpiSCs retain their pluripotency, or ability to differentiate into virtually any kind of cell. … Read More »