scholarly journals From Core Set to Assemblage

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Mike Michael ◽  
Steven Wainwright ◽  
Clare Williams ◽  
Bobbie Farsides ◽  
Alan Cribb

**From Core Set to Assemblage: On the Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Failure to Derive Beta Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells** In this paper, we examine the controversy surrounding the Lumelsky protocol (which potentially could have transformed the procedures for differentiating embryonic stem cells into beta cells for diabetes treatment). The protocol is analyzed initially using Collins’ core set model to show how the controversy over epistemic claims was resolved (and the Lumelsky protocol deemed to be a failure). This approach is then contrasted to an analysis in terms of scientific ‘assemblages’ characterized not by the resolution of epistemic controversy, but by the ‘irresolution’ or openness of social associations amongst scientists. We suggest that scientists who jumped on the ‘Lumelsky bandwagon’ can be rehabilitated, partly because of the recognized chronic uncertainty in the stem cell fi eld. Thus, alongside the judgement, resolution and exclusion mapped by core set analysis, there is ‘understanding’, irresolution and inclusion suggested by ‘assemblage analysis’. *Key words*: core set, assemblage, stem cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 5011
Author(s):  
Daehwan Kim ◽  
Sangho Roh

Stem cell research is essential not only for the research and treatment of human diseases, but also for the genetic preservation and improvement of animals. Since embryonic stem cells (ESCs) were established in mice, substantial efforts have been made to establish true ESCs in many species. Although various culture conditions were used to establish ESCs in cattle, the capturing of true bovine ESCs (bESCs) has not been achieved. In this review, the difficulty of establishing bESCs with various culture conditions is described, and the characteristics of proprietary induced pluripotent stem cells and extended pluripotent stem cells are introduced. We conclude with a suggestion of a strategy for establishing true bESCs.


2010 ◽  
Vol 289 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaker A. Mousa ◽  
Thangirala Sudha ◽  
Evgeny Dyskin ◽  
Usawadee Dier ◽  
Christine Gallati ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 4563-4567
Author(s):  
T H Vu ◽  
G R Martin ◽  
P Lee ◽  
D Mark ◽  
A Wang ◽  
...  

Embryonal carcinoma and embryonic stem cells expressed a novel form of platelet-derived growth factor receptor mRNA which was approximately 1,100 base pairs shorter than the 5.3-kilobase (kb) transcript expressed in fibroblasts and other cell types. The 4.2-kb stem cell transcript was initiated within the genomic region immediately upstream of exon 6 of the 5.3-kb transcript and therefore lacked the first five exons, which encode much of the extracellular domain of the receptor expressed in fibroblasts. In stem cells, the short form was predominant, although both forms were present at low levels. Following differentiation in vitro, expression levels of the long form increased dramatically. These findings suggest that during early embryogenesis, a stem cell-specific promoter is used in a stage- and cell type-specific manner to express a form of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor that lacks much of the extracellular domain and may function independently of ligand.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (20) ◽  
pp. jcs255166

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Federico Pecori is first author on ‘Mucin-type O-glycosylation controls pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells via Wnt receptor endocytosis’, published in JCS. Federico is a PhD student in the lab of Shoko Nishihara at the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, where he is interested in the mechanisms regulating stem cell identity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 169-191
Author(s):  
Emma E. Redfield ◽  
Erin K. Luciano ◽  
Monica J. Sewell ◽  
Lucas A. Mitzel ◽  
Isaac J. Sanford ◽  
...  

This study looks at the number of clinical trials involving specific stem cell types. To our knowledge, this has never been done before. Stem cell clinical trials that were conducted at locations in the US and registered on the National Institutes of Health database at ‘clinicaltrials.gov’ were categorized according to the type of stem cell used (adult, cancer, embryonic, perinatal, or induced pluripotent) and the year that the trial was registered. From 1999 to 2014, there were 2,357 US stem cell clinical trials registered on ‘clinicaltrials.gov,’ and 89 percent were from adult stem cells and only 0.12 percent were from embryonic stem cells. This study concludes that embryonic stem cells should no longer be used for clinical study because of their irrelevance, moral questions, and induced pluripotent stem cells.


Zygote ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Gerelchimeg Bou ◽  
Shimeng Guo ◽  
Jia Guo ◽  
Zhuang Chai ◽  
Jianchao Zhao ◽  
...  

Summary The efficiency of establishing pig pluripotent embryonic stem cell clones from blastocysts is still low. The transcription factor Nanog plays an important role in maintaining the pluripotency of mouse and human embryonic stem cells. Adequate activation of Nanog has been reported to increase the efficiency of establishing mouse embryonic stem cells from 3.5 day embryos. In mouse, Nanog starts to be strongly expressed as early as the morula stage, whereas in porcine NANOG starts to be strongly expressed by the late blastocyst stage. Therefore, here we investigated both the effect of expressing NANOG on porcine embryos early from the morula stage and the efficiency of porcine pluripotent embryonic stem cell clone formation. Compared with intact porcine embryos, NANOG overexpression induced a lower blastocyst rate, and did not show any advantages for embryo development and pluripotent embryonic stem cell line formation. These results indicated that, although NANOG is important pluripotent factor, NANOG overexpression is unnecessary for the initial formation of porcine pluripotent embryonic stem cell clones in vitro.


2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gertrude C Derikito ◽  
Maria Wartenberg ◽  
Heinrich Sauer ◽  
Cynthia P Saloma ◽  
Ameurfina D Santos

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