Neural crest cells -- embryonic pluripotent cells within the facial primordium -- may be necessary for forming proper animal facial structures.
Researchers have produced neural crest cell-rich aggregates from human pluripotent stem cells and developed a method to differentiate them in cell populations with a branchial arch-like gene expression pattern.
Now, a group of Kyoto University researchers have produced neural crest cell-rich aggregates from human pluripotent stem cells and developed a method to differentiate them in cell populations with a branchial arch-like gene expression pattern.cells in response to external signalling factors, these populations spontaneously form patterns of the facial primordium," explains Yusuke Seto of KyotoU's Institute for Medical and Biological Research.
"We aim to establish a model for studying early facial development by using the properties of human pluripotent stem cells to generatetissue resembling the bronchial arch of the primordial face," adds Ryoma Ogihara, also of the Institute. Last year, researchers identified the early origins of neural crest cells -- embryonic cells in vertebrates that travel throughout the body and generate many cell types -- in chick embryos. Now the ...
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