Clinical epigenetics: seizing opportunities for translation

M Berdasco, M Esteller - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Biomarker discovery and validation are necessary for improving the prediction of clinical
outcomes and patient monitoring. Despite considerable interest in biomarker discovery and …

Translational control of stem cell function

JA Saba, K Liakath-Ali, R Green, FM Watt - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Stem cells are characterized by their ability to self-renew and differentiate into many different
cell types. Research has focused primarily on how these processes are regulated at a …

Fine tuning the extracellular environment accelerates the derivation of kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

E Garreta, P Prado, C Tarantino, R Oria, L Fanlo… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The generation of organoids is one of the biggest scientific advances in regenerative
medicine. Here, by lengthening the time that human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) were …

Transposable elements as a potent source of diverse cis-regulatory sequences in mammalian genomes

V Sundaram, J Wysocka - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Eukaryotic gene regulation is mediated by cis-regulatory elements, which are embedded
within the vast non-coding genomic space and recognized by the transcription factors in a …

New developments in the biology of fibroblast growth factors

DM Ornitz, N Itoh - WIREs mechanisms of disease, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is composed of 18 secreted signaling proteins
consisting of canonical FGFs and endocrine FGFs that activate four receptor tyrosine …

Ribosome heterogeneity and specialization in development

K Norris, T Hopes, JL Aspden - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Regulation of protein synthesis is a vital step in controlling gene expression, especially
during development. Over the last 10 years, it has become clear that rather than being …

A new era of stem cell and developmental biology: from blastoids to synthetic embryos and beyond

Y Kim, I Kim, K Shin - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Recent discoveries in stem cell and developmental biology have introduced a new era
marked by the generation of in vitro models that recapitulate early mammalian development …

The mononuclear phagocytic system. Generation of diversity

S Gordon, A Plüddemann - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We are living through an unprecedented accumulation of data on gene expression by
macrophages, reflecting their origin, distribution, and localization within all organs of the …

Polycomb repressive complex 2 shields naïve human pluripotent cells from trophectoderm differentiation

B Kumar, C Navarro, N Winblad, JP Schell, C Zhao… - Nature Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
The first lineage choice in human embryo development separates trophectoderm from the
inner cell mass. Naïve human embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass and …

Genome-wide R-loop landscapes during cell differentiation and reprogramming

P Yan, Z Liu, M Song, Z Wu, W Xu, K Li, Q Ji, S Wang… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
DNA: RNA hybrids play key roles in both physiological and disease states by regulating
chromatin and genome organization. Their homeostasis during cell differentiation and cell …