iPSCs
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Tina Ethridge won second place in the 2015 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Research Symposium oral presentation competition! She didn’t invent induced pluripotent stem cells; she just made them great!
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Our lab is working with induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural stem cell lines (HIP-NSCs) in an effort to examine their potential to regenerate damaged brain tissue after a neural injury.
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Amie Goedeke received a fellowship to work on the derivation of canine induced pluripotent stem cells from the Morris Animal Foundation. These unique canine stem cells can be turned into neurons to help daschunds with spinal cord injury or mesenchymal cells for dogs with bone or cartilage defects or arthritis. This personalized medicine option gets…
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Learn more about how pig induced pluripotent stem cells may potentially change the landscape of biomedical models. Read about it in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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For the first time in a non-mammalian species, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been derived in the quail. This intriguing article demonstrates that human reprogramming factors POU5F1, SOX2, NANOG, LIN28, KLF4 and C-MYC are capable of de-differentiating quail fibroblast cells back to a pluripotent state. These quail iPSCs not only have morphology and immunoreactivity…
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The West lab received part of a 1.6 million dollar grant to help generate Newcastle disease resistant chickens. Read about how this fundamental research will help poor farmers around the world: CBS Atlanta Atlanta Business Chronicle Red And Black
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These cells come in as many colors as there maybe potential cures discovered by their use. Pig iPSCs: POU5F1 (red), SOX2 (green), DNA (blue).
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Dr. West gave a talk at the January Business meeting of the ARCS Foundation Atlanta Chapter. He discussed his groundbreaking work in the differentiation of stem cells into sperm cell and the derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells from pigs. He outlined the potential of using stem cell derived germ cells to screen for toxic…
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Porcine induced pluripotent stem cells produce chimeric offspring. West FD, Terlouw SL, Kwon DJ, Mumaw JL, Dhara SK, Hasneen K, Dobrinsky JR, Stice SL. Stem Cells Dev. 2010 Aug;19(8):1211-20. Abstract Ethical and moral issues rule out the use of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in chimera studies that would determine the full…
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