Volume 23, No 10, Oct 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 10, October 2013: 1161-1162

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The Years of the Monkey

Xiaojun Lian1 and Kenneth R Chien1

1Departments of Cell and Molecular Biology and Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence: Kenneth R Chien(kenneth.chien@ki.se)

The fact that mammals are diploid sets a barrier to rapidly understand the function of non-coding and coding genes in the genome. Recently, Yang et al. reported successful derivation of monkey haploid embryonic stem cells from parthenotes, which provide an effective platform for studying mammalian gene function and enable reverse genetic screening of genes for recessive phenotypes in monkeys.

10.1038/cr.2013.111

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