Volume 25, No 3, Mar 2015

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 25 Issue 3, March 2015: 267-268

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The generation of sex cells

Alessia Deglincerti¹ and Ali H Brivanlou¹

¹Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology, The Rockefeller University, USA Correspondence: Ali H Brivanlou,(brvnlou@rockefeller.edu)

Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the earliest population of germ cells established during embryonic development and constitute the beginning of the totipotent state. A recent study provides a new protocol for the efficient generation of PGC-like cells from human embryonic stem cells, providing an in vitro platform to study human PGC differentiation and specification.

10.1038/cr.2015.18

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