Tuesday, 16 April 2013

A novel surface marker helps scientists ‘fish out’ mammary gland stem cells

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists in the laboratory of Professor Gregory Hannon at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) used a mouse model to identify a novel cell surface marker on mammary gland stem cells (MaSCs). Using that marker, the team was able to assemble a sample of MaSCs of unprecedented purity. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Dos Santos CO, et al. Molecular hierarchy of mammary differentiation yields refined markers of mammary stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Apr 11. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23580620

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